Word: reductionism
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When it comes to discussing the efficiency of the 68th Congress, there is much to be said on three sides. Senator Wadsworth, Republican of New York: "Since I have been in the Senate, I have never seen so little accomplished in a relative period as during this session. This time...
A soldier bonus, the idea of which was sidetracked by the House Ways and Means Committee in order to expedite the tax reduction, was again shunted back onto the main line. By a vote of 16 to 4, the Committee decided that a bonus bill would be reported and then...
The Tax Reduction bill, having passed out of the hands of the House with 37½% surtaxes (TiME, March 10), dallied in the Senate Finance Committee before appearing on the floor of the Upper House. What its fate will be there is uncertain. Some say the surtax rates will be...
At once Congress began to calculate where it stood on the proposition. On the first day, it was generally opined that a separate resolution with the reduction for 1923 would be passed, although some of the Democrats would be opposed because they feared that President Coolidge would feel freer, politically...
The reason was simply that all those who, for one reason or another, like the bill as passed by the House-either because it had higher surtaxes than the Mellon plan, or for some other reason, felt that 'the bill had a better chance of becoming law if the...