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====Reece Committee====
====Reece Committee====
He was the namesake of the '''[[Reece Committee]]''', which was the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations during the 83rd Congress, when the Republicans gained control of the House.<ref name=libertyuniversity/> His effort to re-establish the select committee was successful when the new conservative Republican Congress in 1953 voted for the enactment resolution.<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 23, 2021.</ref> Remaining Cox Committee members [[Brooks Hays]], [[Angier Goodwin]], [[Richard M. Simpson]], and [[Aime J. Forand]] voted against it.
He was the namesake of the '''[[Reece Committee]]''', which was the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations during the 83rd Congress, when the Republicans gained control of the House.<ref name=libertyuniversity/> His effort to re-establish the select committee was successful when the new conservative Republican Congress in 1953 voted for the enactment resolution.<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 23, 2021.</ref> Remaining Cox Committee members [[Brooks Hays]], [[Angier Goodwin]], [[Richard M. Simpson]], and [[Aime J. Forand]] voted against it.
[[File:Angier Goodwin.jpg|thumb|right|Undated picture of Rep. Goodwin.]]
Although undermined by House Minority Leader [[Sam Rayburn]] and President Eisenhower,<ref name=thenewamerican/> the Reece Committee managed to expose plots by major foundations who sought to subvert American society towards [[internationalist]], left-wing ideologies.
Although undermined by House Minority Leader [[Sam Rayburn]] and President Eisenhower,<ref name=thenewamerican/> the Reece Committee managed to expose plots by major foundations who sought to subvert American society towards [[internationalist]], left-wing ideologies.