Assertion: caucus | /r/HasAspect | binding power
Facets:
value: over the members
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Back in the last era of hyper-partisanship in Congress at the turn of the 20th century, Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (R-Ill.) "deliberately confused the distinction between a party conference, an informal meeting, and a caucus, which had binding power over the members," historian Scott William Rager writes.