| − | Scott was one of forty-nine House Republicans who voted in July 1953 against the re-enactment of the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/83-1953/h61 H RES 217. RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO CON- DUCT A FULL AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION AND STUDY OF EDUCA- TIONAL AND PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM FED. INCOME TAXATION.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref> It was approved 209–163 vote and became known during the congressional session as the '''[[Reece Committee]]''', the namesake being its chair, [[Tennessee]] Republican [[B. Carroll Reece]]. | + | Scott was one of forty-nine House Republicans who voted in July 1953 against the re-enactment of the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/83-1953/h61 H RES 217. RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO CON- DUCT A FULL AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION AND STUDY OF EDUCA- TIONAL AND PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM FED. INCOME TAXATION.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref> It was approved 209–163 vote and became known during the congressional session as the '''[[Reece Committee]]''', the namesake being its chair, [[Tennessee]] Republican [[B. Carroll Reece]]. The latter pushed for House approval of re-creating the committee following the incompetence of its previous chair, Georgia [[segregation]]ist Eugene E. Cox, in the previous Congress.<ref>FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/12/22/the-reece-committee-on-foundations-conspiratorial-nonsense-or-an-expose-of-a-threat-to-the-nation/comment-page-1/ 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 8, 2021.</ref> |