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
do if something were to change. to me it s kind of like a sign that says flood area because it s just there all the time. well, don t drivehrough that. that the point. so, yes, we have forwarded some recommendations based on what th subcommittee came to us for into what s called the in tteragency process. michael knows what that means. it takes a long time. it means it s being considered because it s important and it s going to affect a lot of different things. so you can see it changing? perhaps. candy, to your point, you walk through the airport. we ve been at orange. this has been as michael will remember a pet peeve omine. you shouldn t put the system up a level to something like orange if you re not prepared to say what it s going to take to bring it back down, because to your point, candy, the system then loses credibility. that was why i was glad to help co-chair that study. what do you think? has the system as it s now set up lost its usefulness? let me go bac