The Rev. Al Sharpton, who is an adviser to the Dorismond family, and a group of Haitian community leaders from New York met today with about 20 House Democrats, most of them members of the Congressional Black Caucus, to ask for help in pressuring the Department of Justice to investigate Mr. Dorismond's death.
The election judges running the Democratic side didn't mention the caucus either, so people who wanted to caucus had to know to ask for their voter card to be stamped or to receive a receipt.
"We will not want to walk away with nothing" from a debt ceiling vote, Ryan vowed on CNBC, although he added that the GOP caucus hasn't yet decided what to ask for in return.
The president made a surprise appearance at the Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday night to ask for support and spoke to a special meeting of the Democratic caucus on Friday morning to plead for support.
This is where The Caucus is looking to throw open its reporting process and ask for some crowd-sourcing help.
This is where the Caucus is looking to throw open its reporting process and ask for some crowdsourcing help.
Mr. Paul also campaigned in the caucus states; he was the only candidate who traveled to Alaska to ask for the state's delegates.
"Quicksand phase is starting I suspect," one veteran Republican strategist told The Caucus, asking for anonymity to be blunt about a presidential candidate.
Q: Will he call a national -- because the Congressional Black Caucus has asked for a national summit on race.
Finally, late Thursday night, the owners' delegation knocked on the union's caucus-room door and asked for another brief meeting.
Representative Michael G. Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Doylestown, Pa., who is chairman of the Passenger Rail Caucus, met with Mr. Gunn two weeks ago and asked for information about the costs of providing service to commuters in the Northeast.
