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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 c...

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 ...

(See front cover) When the Depression broke over the high head of the Republican Administration in 1929, President Hoover called to the White House a…

To the camera now. over here, senator! there was also michele bachmann's weird beef with the census back in 2009, when she said that her family would refuse to answer most of the questions on the census, and that if you don't also refuse to answer census questions, well, the government might round you up and put you in an internment camp. >> between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the census bureau was handed over to the fbi and other organizations at the request of president roosevelt and that's how the japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. i'm not saying t...

Bespectacled one, is senator reid smoot. senator smooth was a republican senator from utah for 30 years, starting in 1903. standing next to senator smoot is a congressman named willis holly, a republican from oregon. and together, these two handsome devils sponsored something called the smoot/holly tariff act in 1930. it raised taxes on somethings the u.s. wanted to import. it was a big tariff signed into law by the president at the time, herbert hoover, who was also a republican. president hoover signed the smooth/holly act in 1930 and pretty much everybody agrees now in hindsight that it was...