Word: caucus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Several Alternatives. Paraphrasing Churchill, House Majority Leader Carl Albert admits that the seniority system may be "the worst possible system-except for all the alternatives." Albert notwithstanding, several alternatives have been proposed by angry congressional juniors. One plan would give a party caucus the authority to choose a chairman (or for the minority party, the ranking member) from that party's three most senior members on a committee. Even such a limited change might have dramatic impact. Thus Stuart Symington, a Viet Nam dove, could be chosen to replace the hawkish John Stennis as chairman of the Senate Armed...
...third suggestion would put the choice of chairmen up to the caucus, which could choose from any of its members. This would be the most democratic method and, in theory anyway, would allow choices to be made on merit alone. The principal objection to this plan is that it could lead to all sorts of unseemly plotting and bargaining; conceivably, it might take Congress weeks to organize itself after every election...
TOWARD the end of last month, the leaders of Israel's governing Labor Party met four or five times in Tel Aviv to discuss the problems that would confront the country during the 1970s. The last of the meetings was a secret caucus at the home of Tel Aviv's mayor, Yehoshua Rabinowitz. Three faces were missing. Premier Golda Meir had purposely absented herself. Pinhas Sapir, Israel's Finance Minister and the party's powerful kingmaker, was traveling on government business. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had not been invited. The consensus of the meeting, after lengthy...
...confrontation began when a dozen of the 100 students attending the lecture approached the stage and asked MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, to delay his discussion of "Macrotheory Concepts of Surplus and Aggregate Demand." He agreed, left the stage, and watched an informal caucus lead the discussion...
...have a great deal of fund-raising experience, but has been chairman of the Berkeley Center for Japanese and Korean studies and is currently associate director of the East Asian Research Center. He remains active on Faculty committees and is considered one of the leaders of the old conservative caucus...