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And the aim and objective, as Lloyd Bentsen well knows, was to undo the stupidity of what had been done in 1930 and '31 by the then-Congress of the United States to pass what they called the Smoot -

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AND, the new lady, Ms. Julianna Smoot, is also unprecedented:

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Smoot is closely tied to Norman Hsu, who just got a 24 year sentence for campaign finance crimes.

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Now, of course, in our universe this was called the Smoot-Hawley Act and it was signed into law in 1929 by Republican President Herbert Hoover.

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Now, of course, in our universe this was called the Smoot-Hawley Act and it was signed into law in 1929 by Republican President Herbert Hoover.

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IN the 1930s, earnest congressmen thought they could solve America's Great Depression by punishing foreigners with a protectionist measure called the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.

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What they came up with was a law called the Smoot-Hawley act that hiked tariffs to all-time highs on some 70 agricultural products and 900 manufactured items.

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Then the gov't passed a short sighted bill called Smoot-Hawley tarrif act that raised tarrifs on imports by 50 percent.

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What they came up with was a law called the Smoot-Hawley act that hiked tariffs to all-time highs on some 70 agricultural products and 900 manufactured items.

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Cory Smoot aka Flattus Maximus of GWAR performs during the Download Festival in Donnington, U.K.

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