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====Aftermath====
 
====Aftermath====
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Out of the six remaining members of the select committee, only Simpson's [[conservative]] [[Tennessee]] colleague [[B. Carroll Reece]] wished for a do-over and conduct a more thorough investigation of tax-exempt foundations.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> Simpson thus voted against a House resolution in late July 1953 which re-enacted the committee.<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 September 21, 2021.</ref> The measure still passed with strong support from the majority of House Republicans, and the committee was known during the 83rd Congress as the '''[[Reece Committee]]'''.
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Out of the six remaining members of the select committee, only Reece sought a do-over and conduct a more thorough investigation of tax-exempt foundations.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> The U.S. House voted in late 1953 under a conservative Republican-led Congress to re-enact the committee.<ref name=reececommitteeenactment>[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 September 21, 2021.</ref>
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Simpson, along with remaining committee members [[Aime J. Forand]], [[Brooks Hays]], and [[Angier Goodwin]], thus voted against a House resolution in late July 1953 which re-enacted the committee.<ref name=reececommitteeenactment/> The measure still passed with strong support from the majority of House Republicans, and the committee was known during the 83rd Congress as the '''[[Reece Committee]]'''.
    
===Death in office===
 
===Death in office===
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