1902. no voter ever saw his name on a ballot. he was elected to the senate the old-fashioned way, in a way the founders thought senators should be elected. a state legislature chose and voted for reed smoot to go to the united states senate to represent the state of utah. in his 30 year career as a senator, reed smoot rose to the most powerful chairmanship in the senate, chairman of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over the federal government ways of raising revenue, bringing money into the treasury. taxation and tariffs. with the stock market crashing in 1929 and the country and during the great depression, reed smoot had the worst idea any chairman of the senate finance committee ever had. it was an idea that would end his career in the senate. the house ways and means committee had the same jurisdiction in the house that the finance committee has in the senate. taxation and tariffs. the chairman of the house ways and means committee loved reed smoot s very ba
the way the founders thought senators should had be elected. the state legislature chose and voted for reed smoot to go to the united states senate to represent the state of utah. in his 30-year career as a senator, reed smoot rose to the most powerful chairmanship in the senate, chairman of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over the federal government s two ways of raising revenue, bringing money into the treasury, taxation and tariffs. with the stock ■çmarket crashin in 1929 and the country entering the great depression reed smoot had the worst idea any chairman of the senate finance committee ever had. it was an idea that would end his career in the senate. the house ways and means committee had the same jurisdiction in the house that the finance committee has in the senate, taxation and tariffs. the chairman of the house ways and means committee, willis hawley, loved reed smoot s very bad idea. that idea also ended chairman hawley s career in the house of
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joining us now live from the great state of texas is mike siegel. he is a congressional democratic candidate in texas running against incumbent republican mike mccaul. i should tell you, i asked mr. siegel to come back don show tonight because apparently the somewhat outrageous problem he joined us to talk about last night, presto-changeo now looks like it mate mai be fixed. mr. siegel, thanks for coming back on short notice and joining us. thank you, rachel. i appreciate it. i don t mean to make you do all the work here, but maybe it would be helpful here if you could walk us through the state of play for the students at prairie view a&m as of 24 hours ago when we last talked to you, and how that has just changed, i m told, just in the last hour or so. sure, i d be happy to. so the previous situation which led us to deliver this letter which resulted in my staffer being arrested was that the elections official for waller county was going to require every student who had register
centrum. feed your cells. joining us now live from the great state of texas is mike siegel. he is a congressional democratic candidate in texas running against incumbent republican mike mccaul. i should tell you, i asked mr. siegel to come back don show tonight because apparently the somewhat outrageous problem he joined us to talk about last night, presto-chango now looks like it may be fixed. mr. siegel, thanks for coming back on short notice and joining us. thank you, rachel. i appreciate it. i don t mean to make you do all the work here, but maybe it