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3 unusual facts about Caucus


Australian Labor Party Caucus

The Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party, commonly known as The Caucus which consists of the Federal Labor Party's currently elected members of Parliament, is divided along formal factional lines.

Australian Labor Party National Executive

It does not decide party policy, which is determined by the National Conference, nor does it elect the party's parliamentary leaders, which is done by the Parliamentary Caucus.

Bob Kiss

He quickly earned the respect of his colleagues and was subsequently anointed leader of the Progressive Party Caucus.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry claimed in his 2004 book, "Children of the Indus", that parliamentarians Chand Ramrakha and Irene Jai Narayan had betrayed their own leader by telling the Governor-General that not all NFP caucus members would support Koya for Prime Minister.

2012 in LGBT rights

April 19 — Bettie Naylor, United States, LGBT rights activist and founding member of the Human Rights Campaign and the National Women's Political Caucus.

Alex Kindy

Kindy, David Kilgour, and Pat Nowlan all opposed the GST and voted against it in the House of Commons resulting in their expulsion from the Progressive Conservative caucus on April 10, 1990.

Azerbaijan America Alliance

Congressmen Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Dan Boren (D-OK) serve as the co-Chairs of the Caucus and are exceptionally supportive of the Azerbaijani community in America.

Blogosphere

Political blogs are often tied to a large media or news corporation, such as "The Caucus" (affiliated with The New York Times), "CNN Political Ticker", and the National Reviews "The Corner."

Brian Mason

Mason held his seat during the provincial election in 2004, which saw the caucus welcome the return of former leaders Pannu and Ray Martin, along with newcomer David Eggen.

In the provincial election of 2008 Mason again retained his seat, and was joined in caucus by newly elected NDP MLA Rachel Notley from Edmonton-Strathcona, the seat previously held by Pannu.

Congressional Black Caucus

Only six black Republicans have been elected to Congress since the caucus was founded: Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, Representative Gary Franks of Connecticut, Delegate Melvin H. Evans of the Virgin Islands, Representative J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, Representative Allen West of Florida, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.

Congressional Hearing Health Caucus

One of the co-founders and co-chairmen of the Caucus was former Congress Member James T. Walsh (R-NY).

Congressional Pro-Trade Caucus

The Congressional Pro-Trade Caucus (CPTC), founded by Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar in 2009, during the 111th Congress.

Dave Hancock

Hancock was unable to secure any endorsements from PC caucus members, but was endorsed by Edmonton-Centre Conservative MP Laurie Hawn.

Eric Sedler

As a leading member of the Issue Department for the Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, Sedler worked with House leadership and state legislators to develop communications programs to advance the caucus agenda.

Félix Ortiz

Assemblyman Ortiz serves as President of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, Vice-President of COPA USA, Chair of the Labor and Workforce Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and Executive Committee Board Member of the Council of State Governments (CSG).

Fukuro

Fukuro (Fairy Tail), an owl-like character of Death's Head Caucus Guild of a Dark Guild in Fairy Tail series.

Green syndicalism

Its methods are a fusion of the trade union, more robust methods from formal syndicalism, and the direct action and workplace democracy movements (some members of the Environmental Unionist Caucus of the IWW identify as green syndicalists).

James Masango

James Masango is a South African politician, and a Democratic Alliance (DA) member of Parliament's National Assembly (MP), where he serves as the Chairperson of Caucus.

Joseph McNamara

However, McNamara remained independent and, in 1921, made an alliance with M.M. MacBride, a dissenting member of the Independent Labour Party who had left the governing caucus, to move a Bill which would have introduced an eight-hour day.

Lang Labor

Lang still faced significant opposition within the caucus and the caucus appointed cabinet but he was able to defeat his opponents by returning his commission as Premier to the Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair on 25 May 1927.

Lillian Dyck

On January 29, 2014, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau announced all Liberal Senators, including Dyck, were removed from the Liberal caucus, and would continue sitting as Independents.

Lloyd Winnecke

Winnecke has held office continuously since shortly after the 1999 city campaign, when he was selected in a GOP caucus to succeed then-newly elected Mayor Russ Lloyd Jr., on the Vanderburgh County Council.

Luke Chijiuba Ochulor

As a member of the Imeobi (inner caucus) of the Imo State Council of Elders, in 2009 he denied rumors that the State governor, Ikedi Ohakim was paying off to the elders to prevent criticism.

Margaret Anderson Kelliher

In June 2006, she was selected by her caucus to succeed Rep. Matt Entenza as Minority Leader, assuming the position after the legislative session came to a close.

Mark Morrow

In 1993, Morrow, Kormos and Karen Haslam were the only members of the NDP caucus to vote against the Rae government's Social Contract legislation, which restructured the province's labour laws and introduced unpaid leave days for some workers (Dennis Drainville also voted against the legislation, although he had left the NDP caucus by this stage).

Ministers of the New Zealand Government

Different parties have different mechanisms for this - the Labour Party, for example, has provision for caucus to select ministers, while in the National Party, a Prime Minister theoretically has greater authority to make their own selections.

Monte McNaughton

On September 13, 2013 Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak named McNaughton Official Opposition Critic for Labour after dismissing Randy Hillier from the role for violating caucus confidentiality.

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus

The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus was founded in 1967 by African American state legislators under the leadership of State Representative C.J. McLin of Dayton, Ohio (Deceased)

Old Folks at Home

Crist then encouraged state Senator Tony Hill, who was the leader of the legislature's Black Caucus, to find a new song.

Olive Crane

On October 4, 2013 Olive Crane was kicked out of the PEI PC Caucus by interim leader, Steven Myers.

Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus

The Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus is an informal legislative organization created in 2007 by leaders of the Senates of the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawai'i and the United States territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas Islands.

Pat Nowlan

In 1991, Nowlan was expelled from the Tory caucus after voting against the Mulroney government's introduction of the Goods and Services Tax.

Paul-André Latulippe

While three MNAs remained loyal to Leader Camil Samson, Latulippe and the rest of the caucus withdrew their support and appointed Armand Bois as temporary leader, until a leadership convention could determine a new leader.

Peter Sandhu

Parmjit Singh "Peter" Sandhu is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Manning and is currently sitting as an Independent MLA after withdrawing from the Progressive Conservative Caucus due to an ongoing investigation by Alberta's ethics commissioner over business dealings.

Peter Shurman

He served as PC Caucus Finance Critic until September 8, 2013 when he was removed from the position after a "heated exchange" with party leader Tim Hudak in which Shurman refused to repay a housing allowance he had received to pay for a Toronto apartment despite the fact he represents a Toronto-area constituency.

Political career of David Paterson

Since the Great Depression, only one party caucus leader has been unseated in either legislature; Paterson succeeded without the help of a powerful patron, and owed no debts to other Democratic party leaders.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1984

Incumbent President Ronald Reagan was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1984 Republican National Convention held from August 20 to August 23, 1984 in Dallas, Texas.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1992

Incumbent President George H.W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1992 Republican National Convention held from August 17 to August 20, 1992 in Houston, Texas.

Ron Richard

In a caucus meeting, Richard beat out fellow Republican and Budget Committee chair Allen Icet to be preliminarily named Speaker of the 95th General Assembly.

Simon Grindrod

Simon Grindrod is the former National Deputy Leader of the Independent Democrats, former leader of its City of Cape Town caucus, a PR member of the Cape Town City Council, and a subcouncillor for Subcouncil 1 (Blaauwberg).

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, February 2012

Maine Senate President Kevin Raye stated that the final tally would be updated to include the results from the Washington County caucus held on February 18, but that the State Committee would vote on March 10 to determine if the other towns who voluntarily held their caucuses after the February 11 deadline would be included.

Steven Horsford

In August 2011, Horsford appointed Senator Mo Denis to lead the caucus election efforts during for the 2012 election cycle, garnering criticism from some in his party due to Denis's sub-par fundraising.

United States House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children

The House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children (HCMEC) was formed in order to assist the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and coordinate United States federal legislation preventing child abduction and exploitation of children, including prosecution for possession of online pornography and solicitation of minors for sexual activity.

United States Senate election in New York, 1827

The caucus nominated Congressman and Canal Commissioner Stephen van Rensselaer, the man who was said to have cast the deciding vote for Adams in the presidential election of 1824 which had been referred to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Westchester County Board of Legislators

Although the Democrats hold a numerical majority, two of the members of the Democratic conference caucus with the Republicans on the Board to form a majority, similar to the Independent Democratic Conference of the New York State Senate.

Zygmunt Marek

Elected Sejm member the same year, he became chairman of the PPS caucus, replacing Norbert Barlicki in 1926.


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