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	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1878-1920 > Senate Democratic Caucus Organized
		Based on his informal service as Democratic leader in the 1890s, his Senate colleagues believed he was just the man to revitalize their heavily out-numbered party in the early 1900s.
		Democratic senators who opposed the pending Panama Canal treaty sought to unite their party by proposing a rule that would bind all 33 members to any decision approved by two-thirds of the caucus.
		Adoption of the binding rule promoted a distinction between the terms "caucus" and "conference." As these words came to be used, senators were in "caucus" when they discussed whether or not to bind the party's vote on a given issue; they were in "conference" when considering election of officers or general legislative business.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Democratic_Caucus_Organized.htm (392 words)

	Democratic Representative Caucus - Definition, explanation
		The Democratic Representative Caucus was a group of Canadian Members of Parliament who left the Canadian Alliance in 2001 in protest against the leadership of Stockwell Day.
		Two weeks later, on September 24, the DRC members entered into a coalition with the Progressive Conservatives, which was intended to be Joe Clark's framework for proving that the two parties could be united on his terms rather than Day's.
		Pankiw's request for readmission to the Alliance caucus was denied, as he was embroiled in a political scandal involving a violent confrontation with an aboriginal constituent.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/de/democratic_representative_caucus.php (561 words)

	Democratic Representative Caucus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic Representative Caucus was a group of Canadian Members of Parliament who left the Canadian Alliance in 2001 in protest against the leadership of Stockwell Day.
		The remaining seven MPs refused, and initiated the Democratic Representative Caucus on September 12, with Strahl as its parliamentary leader.
		Pankiw's request for readmission to the Alliance caucus was denied, as he was embroiled in a political scandal involving a violent confrontation with an aboriginal constituent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Representative_Caucus (691 words)

	California Latino Legistative Caucus
		Phil Soto (1962-1966), a Democrat from La Puente, and John Moreno (1962-1964), a Democrat from Los Angeles, were elected to the State Assembly and served prior to the formation of the Latino Legislative Caucus.
		In 2001, the Latino Caucus was instrumental in the appointment of Justice Carlos R. Moreno to the California Supreme Court.
		The core mission of the Latino Caucus Institute is to develop stronger, healthier communities throughout the State of California and to serve as an agent of change to ensure that California's Latino community has an increasingly positive and dynamic influence on the diverse economic, social and political body that is California.
	democrats.assembly.ca.gov /LatinoCaucus/history_purpose.htm (5806 words)

	Legislative Black Caucus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		By 1994 Legislative Black Caucus numbers had increased to 25 and they were beginning to grow independent of white Democrats in their push for more "minority majority" districts (that is, districts where a majority of voters are of the minority race).
		At the end of the 1998 session, the Caucus held a gala party to celebrate the anniversary of their founding, but it was held on a note of disappointment and the threat of more obstruction.
		Representative Joe Neal, who became chair of the Caucus in 1999, spoke for many of the members in saying that the governor's lack of strong support for their agenda had become a sore point.
	www.usca.edu /aasc/blackcaucus.htm (2924 words)

	Campaign for a UN Democracy Caucus
		The Campaign for a United Nations Democracy Caucus is dedicated to the promotion and fulfillment of the principles of democracy and human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Warsaw Declaration of the Community of Democracies.
		A related purpose of the UN Democracy Caucus is to strengthen the governance and accountability of the UN on issues of democracy and human rights promoting a democratic consciousness in decision-making on candidacies for key UN bodies.
		The Campaign is in favor of official recognized UN status for the Democracy Caucus, on the same basis as the G-77, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, la Francophonie or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
	www.democracycaucus.net /html/about.html (869 words)

	Michigan senate Democratic Caucus- Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Democrats are demanding that Congress stand up to President Bush, force his Administration to stop criticizing the manufacturing industry and instead fight against the outsourcing of American jobs.
		“Democrats have proposed a plan to stop outsourcing and level the playing field for the American manufacturing industry, but the vast majority of the rubber-stamp Republicans in Congress ignore our suggestions, choosing instead to give the President a free pass on his anti-worker agenda.
		Michigan Democrats are doing what they can to manage outsourcing and its affects at the state level, but federal action is necessary to solve the problem.
	www.senate.michigan.gov /PR/caucusreleases/032706.asp (649 words)

	House Democratic Caucus - Congresspedia
		The House Democratic Caucus is a service-oriented organization for all Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
		The House Democratic Caucus is the only subgroup within the House of which every Democrat is a member.
		Both the chairman and vice chair of the caucus are elected by all Democratic members of the House.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=House_Democratic_Caucus (312 words)

	AKLegislature.com: Caucus ponders taxes, earnings
		The bipartisan Fiscal Policy Caucus is facing a crossroads on using its potential clout to move the Legislature toward a long-range fiscal plan.
		The caucus, which includes a majority of the whole House but not of that chamber's Republican majority, is pressing for a House floor vote on a comprehensive revenue-raising package by March 20.
		Eric Croft, an Anchorage Democrat who recommended the phase-in, said that legislators will have to be honest with the public about the two years in which the permanent fund would not be completely inflation-proofed.
	www.aklegislature.com /stories/022702/caucus.shtml (828 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		A caucus is an informal meeting with candidates and potential voters.
		A caucus vote differs from the presidential election in November because candidates compete with members of the same party to win a partyÕs nomination.
		He said the national parties don't have much control over the caucuses, and he thinks parties should place stricter rules on the caucuses to eliminate the process of "front-loading." Many states are trying to gain political influence early on in the process by placing their caucuses and primaries farther away from the national conventions.
	www.drake.edu /journalism/CyberCaucus2004/defined.html (473 words)

	State: Unified caucus betokens influence
		Republicans outnumber Democrats 77-43 in the House and 25-15 in the Senate.
		But the caucus agenda goes further to include adequate funding for the law school at historically fl Florida A&M University, securing HIV testing for inmates released from state prisons, and requiring the state to purchase textbooks that include African-American history.
		The caucus gained one House and one Senate seat this year, notably in districts that were not drawn to increase minority representation in the Legislature.
	www.sptimes.com /News/012901/news_pf/State/Unified_caucus_betoke.shtml (792 words)

	Jim Pankiw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pankiw served two terms in the Canadian House of Commons, representing Saskatoon—Humboldt in Saskatchewan from 1997 until 2004 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada, the Canadian Alliance, the Democratic Representative Caucus and finally as an independent MP.
		By 2001, Pankiw's relationship with much of the Alliance caucus and especially the leader, Stockwell Day, was reported to be strained.
		The election of Stephen Harper as leader of the Alliance resulted in the dissolution of the PC-DRC coalition and in most of the DRC members returning to the Alliance fold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Pankiw (589 words)

	Caucus turnout sparse 03/14/04
		The Pottawatomie County Democrats were among 20 participants in the caucus, which also was open to party members from Atchison, Brown, Doniphan and Jackson counties.
		Rezac, a farmer and rancher from Emmett, said light turnout for the Onaga caucus was partly because of Kerry seizing the party's nomination before the meetings got under way.
		Democratic registration has run as low as 12 percent in some far western Kansas counties, election records show.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/031404/kan_caucus.shtml (581 words)

	The Democratic Party (Harpers.org)
		The Democratic Party demonstrated its seriousness of purpose by failing to mount a filibuster to block the confirmation of former senator John Ashcroft, who was defeated by a dead man in the last election; Ashcroft was sworn in as Attorney General by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a private ceremony.
		Democrats were said to be confused by the contradiction between President Bush's sweet-talking, inclusive rhetoric and his hardline, right-wing deeds.
		Democratic leaders called for a closed session on the Senate floor, which they used to force the creation of a bipartisan committee; the committee will report on the ongoing Congressional investigation (which the Democratic leadership believes is being purposefully delayed) into the Bush Administration's misuse of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
	www.harpers.org /DemocraticParty.html (1939 words)

	US Congressional Black Caucus
		Upon the group's arrival at Jose Marti International Airport, Maxine Waters, a Democratic representative from the State of California [Chair, CBC], stated that one of the principal objectives of the visit is to see, first-hand, the effects of Washington's economic blockade against the island.
		Maxine Waters, D-California, and Chair of the Black Caucus, Rep. Earl Hilliard, D-Alabama,Vice Chair of the CBC, and Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, Whip of the CBC, were joined by 3 additional CBC members and others in a delegation that arrived in Cuba on Feb 17th.
		Representative Waters told reporters that CBC members want to analyze the effects of the U.S.-imposed embargo in preparation for a debate in the U.S. Congress which is likely to occur in the next three months.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /blackcaucus.htm (2290 words)

	Republican Ed Royce is India Caucus co-chairman
		The India Caucus, which has grown by leaps and bounds in the past two years, primarily due to the resourcefulness and zestful leadership of the Democratic Cochairman Gary Ackerman, is today 124-member strong -- the largest of its kind in the Congress.
		Royce, who succeeded the low-key Greenwood for a two-year term at the helm of the Caucus, is widely expected to play a role akin to Gary Ackerman.
		In a state that is a Democratic stronghold, Royce is a Republican who has easily managed to hold his own -- a fact commented upon by Nadadur Varadhan, an international tax consultant and founder-chairman of a new Los Angeles-based organisation, Indian-American Vision Foundation.
	www.usindiafriendship.net /congress1/housecaucus/edroyce.htm (715 words)

	Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus
		Democrats are avoiding primary contests in two key Cabinet races and trying more actively to recruit legislative and congressional candidates.
		State Democratic Chairman Karen Thurman, who took over in May, believes people are seeing improvements in the party and like what they see in Democratic candidates.
		Democrats have a slim edge over Republicans in registered voters, with 4.3 million registered compared to 3.9 million.
	www.floridaglbtdemocrats.org /2005_12_01_glbtcaucus_archive.html (3697 words)

	The Democratic Party
		The Democratic Party has a long and proud history of representing and protecting the interests of working Americans and guaranteeing personal liberties for all.
		The Call for the 2004 Democratic National Convention outlines the general responsibilities of the Platform Committee, the composition of its membership, and its Rules of Procedure.
		As with all Democratic Party elections, membership on the standing committees is open to all Democrats, regardless of race, sex, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, economic status or physical disability.
	www.democrats.org /a/2005/09/the_2004_democr.php (1486 words)

	ALANA Caucus protests Elimination of Caucus seats
		The ALANA Caucus believes that the supreme duty of any representative is to represent the wishes of his constituents, no matter what established law dictates (especially "law" that was imposed on the student body by an external body outside the student population, the Board of Trustees).
		The ALANA Caucus challenges all to contrast what is written in the SGA Constitution and the General By-Laws and what is desired by the student population.
		The ALANA community prefers the mixed model as a better form of democracy and argues that the ALANA Caucus appointed seats are an integral and necessary part of Student Senate at the University of Massachusetts and are consistent with this vision of a mixed electoral-appointed, inclusive and participatory democracy.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~caucus/protest.html (1558 words)

	House Democratic Caucus
		Although Democrats in the House celebrated many of their session accomplishments, the festivities were tinged with a hint of sadness as four veterans of the House Chamber stood up, one after the other, to give their final remarks on the Floor as they announced their retirement from the House.
		Representatives Ezra Kanoho, Dennis Arakaki, Brian Schatz, and Helene Hale all announced that they were leaving to pursue new dreams and new career paths.
		Click here to learn more about how the House Democrats have paved the way for the economic rejuvenation that we are experiencing today, as well as their efforts to address other issues and concerns facing the people of Hawaii.
	www.capitol.hawaii.gov /hsemaj/home.html (509 words)

	Georgia Democratic Legislative Caucus
		As a freshman Representative, he was quite prolific in legislative sponsorship and even became the first Hispanic to have a proposed bill become a law.
		She believes passionately that she can make a difference and that she will be the kind of representative who will represent all the people—from the lowliest to the highest—that no one will be forgotten.
		Kristina Simms ("Tina") is a founding member of the Middle Georgia Democratic Women's Club in Houston County and is a member of the Houston County Democratic Executive Committee and the Houston County Board of Elections.
	www.gademocraticmajority.com /gdlc_press_featured.html (1301 words)

	Emanuel (Il05) - Press Release - Emanuel Elected Chairman of Democratic Caucus
		WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel was elected by acclamation to serve as the 4th highest ranking Member of the House Democratic Leadership.
		Emanuel will become the youngest member of the Democratic Leadership and will be the first third-term member to serve as Caucus Chair since the twenties.
		In January 2005, Emanuel accepted the position as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and under his leadership and aggressive recruitment efforts, the DCCC expanded the Democratic Party’s reach in every region of the country and 20 months later, the Democrats gained 29 seats in the House.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/il05_emanuel/CAUCUS_NOV162006.html (187 words)

	CNN.com - Caucuses and democracy in Iowa and Iraq: Are direct elections best? - Jan. 19, 2004
		The caucus itself lasts for hours, by contrast with the few minutes it takes to vote (barring the long lines one sometimes encounters at polling places).
		One important reason we send representatives to Washington, and to state capitals, is so that they may work together with other representatives, and jointly arrive at programs that they agree upon.
		Accordingly, the deliberative advantages that caucus systems afford may be outweighed by their departure in practice from a different ideal: the ideal that every citizen should have an equal voice in government.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/01/19/findlaw.analysis.dorf.elections (1664 words)

	Center for Digital Democracy \| Public Media Caucus
		The caucus began with brief overviews of public media from the perspective of four panelists followed by a question and answer segment.
		While primarily a record of the caucus, this document does offer a degree of context and analysis from the author and works to provide a framework for engaging the field of independent media around the issue of public media.
		Alyce served as moderator of the caucus and is the author of this report.
	www.democraticmedia.org /ddc/PublicMediaCaucus.php (5027 words)

	Wisconsin State Journal
		Employees in the Assembly Republican Caucus deleted computer files and removed boxes of campaign records from their state offices to keep the files from falling under an open records request by the Wisconsin State Journal, one of the employees said.
		One of the clean-outs, in which she said boxes of documents were loaded into staffers' vehicles and taken to their homes, occurred after the newspaper filed an open records request for all photos and graphics produced by the caucus in 2000.
		Wall said she has no doubt the materials were campaign related and that they were produced by caucus employees at their state office and while they were on the state payroll.
	www.madison.com /wsj/caucus/index.php?ntid=6562&ntpid=10 (1243 words)

	The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
		Representative Virgil H. Goode Jr., Republican of Virginia, sent a letter to his constituents calling the election of the first Muslim to Congress, Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota, a threat to “the values and beliefs traditional to The United States of America.” The bloggers weighed in.
		Representative Ike Skelton, the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Gen. John P. Abizaid, the senior commander in the Middle East, are among those who do not want to see more troops in Baghdad.
		He said he is willing to listen to Democratic proposals for fixing Social Security, including tax increases, though he signaled that he does not believe raising taxes is necessary.
	thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com /?8dpc (2440 words)

	Reform groups file complaint over caucus scandal
		Madison - The heads of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and Common Cause in Wisconsin today filed a formal complaint with the state Elections Board alleging violations of state campaign finance laws by the Democratic and Republican legislative caucuses overseen by legislative leaders in both houses.
		We have knowledge of telephone records, photographs, memoranda, e-mail communications and documents including but not limited to receipts, job descriptions and campaign literature that show contributions or services for a political purpose were or are being provided by caucus employees using state facilities and resources.
		We also have knowledge of documentation including but not limited to photographs that show collaboration between Project Vote Informed and the Assembly Republican Caucus, which worked on behalf of legislative candidates who were the beneficiaries of Project Vote Informed's independent expenditures.
	www.wisdc.org /caucusjointcomplaint.php (659 words)

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