For Caucus we have terms and definitions in 7 topics. The topics are Advocacy, Congressional, Environment, Government, Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Procedure and Political.

Caucus (Advocacy)

An informal organization of Members of the House and/or the Senate to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.

Caucus (Congressional)

From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of Members of the House or the Senate, or both, that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.

Caucus (Environment)

A meeting of a political party, usually to appoint representatives to party positions.

Caucus (Government)

State gathering of political party members to select candidates for office.

Caucus (Legislative Assembly)

"Caucus" is used as both a noun and a verb. A caucus, n., is a group of people who share something in common (e.g. they are members of the same political party, such as the Senate Republican Caucus or the House Democratic Caucus, or come from the same area of the state, such as the Coastal Caucus or the Eastern Oregon Caucus, or share something else in common, such as the Freshman Caucus or the Women’s Caucus). When these people caucus, v., they meet to address their group’s policy questions and to select political candidates for office, or political party leaders. Both major party caucuses have meeting rooms in the Capitol.

Caucus (Parliamentary Procedure)

(caucus; groupe parlementaire) - A group composed of all Members and Senators of a given party.

Caucus (Political)

A meeting, in particular a meeting of people whose goal is political or organizational change. In American presidential politics, the word has come to mean a gathering of each party’s local political activists during the presidential nomination process. In a “layered” caucus system, local party activists, working at the precinct level, select delegates to county meetings, who in turn select delegates to state meetings. These state-level conventions select delegates to their party’s national nominating convention. The purpose of the caucus system is to indicate, through delegate choice, which presidential candidate is preferred by each state party’s members. Its effect is to democratize presidential nominations, since candidate preferences are essentially determined at the precinct level, at the beginning of the process.

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