Today the word caucus in the U.S. has various meanings. In some states, delegates to the national convention are described by a system called caucus or caucus / convention, which will be described in the following chapters and has nothing to do with the congressional caucus. In other contexts the word is used to indicate a caucus meeting of any party or any representative of the party, often aimed at determining a political strategy or a plan of action.
In the early years of the republic met, informally and without any special procedural rules, legisla-tive congressional caucus in Congress. These were meetings between groups of representatives and senators belonging to the same party for deli-linear common legislative objectives and organizing work to that end. Since 1816 the legislative caucus were gradually replaced by the congressional committee system, similar to our committees. The difference between a caucus and a committee that brings together members of the caucus of one party, while the Committee comprises representatives of most political parties, typically in numbers proportional the strength of each. Today, the legislative caucuses remain merely intended to designate candidates for elective positions in the House of Representatives.
The legislative caucus also exist at the state level. In some states the legislative caucus of the majority party get together almost every day and create much of the legislative initiatives, compensate for the differences between the different points of view within the party, produce the majority of agreements for the final vote in the state parliament. Often there are also the minority caucus of the party to organize the opposition. In other states the caucuses are less important, they only gather annually or to organize election campaigns. A local county and district, the variety of partisan caucus is likely to provide a general classification impossible.
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