Word: caucus
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...eager group of young Republicans supporting Ford plotted strategy in secret meetings, worked hard to round up votes. At week's end they thought they could count the 71 needed to elect Ford by secret ballot in a party caucus on Jan. 4. But they conceded that many of these votes were shaky-especially if Halleck fights all out to stay...
...opening shot, Ford, 51, sent telegrams to Republicans who will be in the next House, asked them to back him against Halleck as minority leader when they caucus on Jan. 4. At a press conference, Ford explained: "It is a question of having new, dynamic, bold, innovating leadership. It is a question of using all the talent that we have available among Republicans in the House...
Friendly Terms. Challenger Ford, ranking G.O.P. expert on military appropriations and chairman of the House Republican Conference (caucus), has worked closely and on friendly terms with Halleck. He is only slightly less conservative than Halleck. He admires the tough old rooster's capacity for combat. But he, like many other House Republicans, feels that Halleck presents a party image too much in the negative spirit of Goldwaterism...
Scalded Skin. Mondale's appointment filled only one of the two vacancies left by Humphrey's election. There still was the matter of who would get Humphrey's job as Senate majority whip, to be decided at a Senate Democratic caucus early in January. Front runners since the Democratic Convention have been Rhode Island's John Pastore, Louisiana's Russell Long and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, with Pastore generally considered to enjoy the edge-at least in the beginning...
...Judges" [Nov. 6], implicitly raises important questions for the coming Congress and administration. You point out that the late President Kennedy, to accommodate Senator Eastland of Mississippi, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, appointed some racist federal judges. Senator Eastland was given this powerful position by the Democratic Senatorial Caucus. Seniority is not a law of the majority caucus and is frequently violated. However morally opprobrious, the Democratic rationale that the Eastlands had to be accommodated to keep Mississippi and the Deep South in the Democratic fold is no longer valid. Eastland and Senator Stennis of Mississippi did not support...