Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee and ... Actually, the Smoot-Mellon “delay” was mostly paper work. What with hearings, debates, compromises, the Senate would not get into ...

The measure is named after its key supporters in Congress: Republican Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah and Republican Rep. Willis Hawley of Oregon. It passed the Senate by a narrow margin of 44 to 42 ...

So when Reed, 75, a West Point graduate, declared at the start of Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth that the controversial ...