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Revision as of 00:34, August 8, 2021
The congressional Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, known during the 82nd Congress as the Reece Committee, was an investigative group in the United States House of Representatives enacted to probe the activities of tax-exempt organizations for potential subversion. It was created at the advocacy of conservative Tennessee Republican B. Carroll Reece in response to the insufficient investigations, findings, and conclusions of the previous Cox Committee.[1]
Reece presented the following criticisms of the Cox Committee in urging for the re-enactment of the select committee during the 82nd Congress:[1]
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Findings
Among the committee's conclusions stated that significant foundations:[2]
| “ | ...have actively supported attacks upon our social and government system and financed the promotion of socialism and collectivist ideas. | ” |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). The Reece Committee on Foundations: Conspiratorial Nonsense or an Expose of a Threat to the Nation?. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ↑ Jasper, William F. (February 6, 2017). Foundations: Cutting Off the Toxic Funding Flow. The New American. Retrieved August 7, 2021.