Taft Administration - Taft and Congress
Taft and Congress
Taft presided over the Sixty-first and the Sixty-second sessions of Congress. In the Sixty-first session the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. In the Sixty-second session, however, the Democrats took control of the House, 230 to 162, while the Republicans retained control of the Senate, 52 to 44. Republicans in Congress included both the reform-seeking Progressives and the older, conservative wing of the party, which considered many of the changes proposed by the Progressives to be too radical.
While Taft tended to be more conservative than his predecessor, he was still a Progressive. At the beginning of his presidency he sought to limit the power of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Joseph G. Cannon, a conservative Republican who used his authority as Speaker to control House proceedings as he saw fit (See also, Domestic Issues). Taft also immediately called Congress into a...
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