The Committee on Ways and Means : a bicentennial history 1789-1989

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Abstract

Item 556-C, 996-C ; 052-071-00852-7 ; Includes index. ; Shipping list no.: 90-488-P. ; Some vols. have United States Congressional serial set number 13885 stamped on spine. ; At head of title: United States House of Representatives. ; Cover title: Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-1989. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-512). ; 1641-1789, Antecedents: legislative finance Committees in Great Britain and America -- 1789-1801, Origins: the House Committee of Ways and Means -- 1801-1829, The Jefferson Republican Committee -- 1829-1861, Apropriations, banking, and the tariff -- 1861-1865, financing the Civil War -- 1865-1890, The Gilded Age Committee -- 1890-1933, Reform and revenue -- 1933-1959, from the New Deal to the Cold War -- 1959-1975, the Mills Committee -- 1975-1989, the Post-Reform Committee. ; Mode of access: Internet.