Votes by Women in G.O.P. attacked

Political Caucus Asked to End Its Support of Legislators Who Back Budget Cuts

By ADAM CLYMER

Special To The New York Times

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 11 – Leading officials of the Democratic Party today challenged the National Women’s Political Caucus, one of the country’s two largest feminist political groups, to stop supporting Republican women in Congress who vote for the Reagan Administration’s budget cuts.

Polly Baca Barragan, a Colorado State Senator who is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told Democrats in the caucus that they should push for a re-evaluation of the organization’s willingness to back such Republicans. ”Even the Congresswomen who were elected with feminist support,” she said, ”had to toe the party line and vote against the economic survival of the women of this country.”

In an interview, Kathy Wilson, a Republican from Alexandria, Va., who is slated to be elected the national chairman of the caucus tomorrow, said that Senator Baca Barragan’s approach would weaken both the caucus and the ability of Republican feminists to alter their party’s policy. ”I want my party back,” she declared.

Senator Baca Barragan’s demand brought into the open a critical tension within this influential group. Among feminist political organizations, the caucus’s 55,000 members place it second only to the National Organization for Women, which has 125,000 members, and its active Washington office and roster of experienced politicians in its membership