Cox Committee
During the 82nd United States Congress, the House of Representatives voted to enact the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations. Named after its chair Edward E. Cox, the committee during the congressional session is known as the Cox Committee.
Composition
Cox, the chair of the committee, was a Democrat segregationist from Georgia. The other members of the Democratic Party among the committee were Wayne Hays of Ohio, Aime Forande of Rhode Island, and Donald O'Toole of New York. The three Republican members were Richard M. Simpson of Pennsylvania, B. Carroll Reece of Tennessee, and Angier Goodwin of Massachusetts
Although there was a 4–3 Democrat majority, Cox was a part of the Conservative Coalition, thus allowing for a simultaneous 4–3 conservative majority on the committee.[1]
Investigation and report
The committee in 1952 sent all major foundations questionnaires which requested information about their operations and activities.[1] Although it conducted hearings which amount to hundreds of pages in transcripts, the Cox Committee's investigation was not in-depth.
Cox died in December 1952 before the committee's report was released.[1] The final report contained little substance and did not declare major foundations to have been subversive.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 September 21, 2021.
External links
- Cox Committee hearings (the compilation is very long!)