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Thomas B. Reed
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Mr. Speaker!
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Thomas B. Reed
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Thomas Brackett Reed
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Reed on the Tariff
Excerpt from Reed on the Tariff: Speech of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 1, 1894 Hence, also, there can be no foundation for that cry, so insidiously raised, that this bill should be passed at once, because uncertainty is worse than any bill can possibly be. Were that bill to pass both branches today, uncertainty would reign just the same. This result was inevitable. Although this bill professed to open to the manufacturers a new era of prosperity and professed to be made in the interest of some of them, the moment it came to be defended on this floor the great bulk of it could not be defended on any other ground than the principles of fre...
Thomas Brackett Reed
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Reed's Rules
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Thomas Brackett Reed
Defining a “statesman” as “a successful politician who is dead,” Thomas Brackett Reed gave himself some latitude in pursuing his goals as a congressional leader. His leadership style is encapsulated in the Reed Rules, which serve as the institutional foundation of the modern House of Representatives and as a metaphor for the practice of power politics for partisan ends. Thomas Brackett Reed tells the story of a roller-coaster career in the Gilded Age. Speaker Reed reached a pinnacle when Republicans enacted landmark legislation in the aftermath of a transformation of parliamentary procedure spearheaded by his dramatic refusal to recognize delaying tactics permitted under the rules in...
The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed It is inevitable that one writing the Life of Thomas B. Reed should be drawn into a discussion of the most important questions before Congress during his long period of service; yet I have made the consideration of them entirely secondary to the recording of his course upon them, and have endeavored to permit him to present his own view in his speeches, letters, and other writings. The great questions before the country while he was in Congress were the Southern and race issues, the Greenback and silver questions, the procedure of the House (and especially obstruction), and civil-service reform and the settlement of the monetary standard. Through...
