Estes Kefauver's voting record as a member of the House of Representatives (1939-48) and Senator (1949-) is not well known. Nine out of ten times he votes the straight Administration line. Here is a digest of his record since World War II:
Taxes & Economic Policy. FOR: Defense Production Act, extension of rent control and all major Administration control and tax programs, with one exception. The exception: in 1947, voted with Republicans to override the President's veto of the $4 billion Republican reduction of income taxes. AGAINST (with Truman): the Kerr bill to exempt independent natural gas companies from federal regulation; the...
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