Word: committeeroom
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...Thoughts, With such tall talk of such fat figures ringing in their ears, the Senate Finance Committeemen retired into their committeeroom with the House tax bill, started to remake it, supposedly in secret. Every few minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were...
...Debt agreements are not treaties but revenue laws of the U. S., the President's most able advocates of postponed collections marched not to the Senate but to the Ways & Means Committee of the House to make their best pleas. First to enter the ornate marble committeeroom was Ogden Livingston Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury on whom the President leaned heavily during those troublous June days before France was jockeyed into line for the Moratorium. He told plump, mild-eyed Democratic Chairman James Collier and his 24 committee colleagues that Congress would be "everlastingly disgraced" if it failed...