Admittedly, I clicked the lazy route, but that info itself is quite interesting. I'll have to do some digging to see just what the Senate spent $1.25M investigating in 1618. But what I found especially interesting was the 2022 amount is exactly the same as the amount from 1921. Hmm. What happened in 1921? That was right about the same time as the Teapot Dome Scandal, which was a bribery scandal involving the administration of US President Warren G. Harding from 1921-1923, centering around petroleum reserves. Here's a link for the background info:
For the lazy, here are the high points:
~ Before the Watergate scandal, the Teapot Dome was regarded at the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics."
~ A cabinet member, Albert B. Fall (R, NM), Sec. Interior, was sentenced to prison for accepting bribes.
~ Congress subsequently passed legislation, enduring to this day, giving subpoena power to the House and Senate for review of tax records of any U.S. citizen regardless of elected or appointed position.
This last seems a timely detail, no? I wonder who they would look at first...
Admittedly, I clicked the lazy route, but that info itself is quite interesting. I'll have to do some digging to see just what the Senate spent $1.25M investigating in 1618. But what I found especially interesting was the 2022 amount is exactly the same as the amount from 1921. Hmm. What happened in 1921? That was right about the same time as the Teapot Dome Scandal, which was a bribery scandal involving the administration of US President Warren G. Harding from 1921-1923, centering around petroleum reserves. Here's a link for the background info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
For the lazy, here are the high points: ~ Before the Watergate scandal, the Teapot Dome was regarded at the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics." ~ A cabinet member, Albert B. Fall (R, NM), Sec. Interior, was sentenced to prison for accepting bribes. ~ Congress subsequently passed legislation, enduring to this day, giving subpoena power to the House and Senate for review of tax records of any U.S. citizen regardless of elected or appointed position.
This last seems a timely detail, no? I wonder who they would look at first...
1929 and "the crash" gets most of the historical attention from that decade, but this is another uncanny parallel to current events.
No harm there, fren! That's how some of the greatest discoveries are made.