31.   It has been especially influential in Iowa, which holds the first party caucuses in presidential election years.

32.   Instead, Republicans kept the Senate out of legislative business until a scheduled break for lunchtime party caucuses.

33.   Lame ducks will tend the House floor at some points, while new and returning members hold party caucuses to elect their partisan leaders for the next Congress.

34.   Legislative leaders in both parties tried to get around the limits by holding party caucus fundraisers during off-election years.

35.   Lo had enough support to be elected at a January local party caucus as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

36.   Minnesota Republicans will register their opinions at party caucuses across the state.

37.   Neither California nor Oregon has party caucuses.

38.   On the eve of the impeachment decision, the lame ducks will gather with their respective party caucuses in momentous farewell this week.

39.   Over the years, one of the strengths of the Democratic Party was its inclusion of enough conservatives to create an often moderate mix in the party caucus.

40.   Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., said party caucuses still had the flavor of pep rallies for the speaker.