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...many influential Congressmen from outside New York were beginning to worry about the impact a default would have on their home districts. A number of them−Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert, House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Reuss−began calling for some additional long-term federal help for all cities. A main reason was that New York's agony has made it costlier and tougher for many other cities to raise money from investors...
...deliberately trying to push up interest rates. The board's latest tightening of monetary policy, he said, was merely intended to signal to the financial community that "a major relaxation of money supply" is not under way. That explanation brought a blast from Committee Chairman Henry Reuss, who wondered why the board did not simply announce its intentions instead of maneuvering in such an arcane fashion that interest rates did rise, thus delivering "a clout on the nose of the economic system...
Moreover, Frye contended, the incident showed that the act "does not paralyze the President," as Nixon had argued it would when he vetoed it. Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss agreed that the workings of the new act already amount to "a turn-around and a landmark" in this potentially most fateful of all governmental powers...
...congressmen themselves were largely noncommital on these questions, but one, Henry S. Reuss (D-Wisc.), called for "the application of existing facets of the law of war to some of the hellishness that has been brought to our attention in Vietnam"--in effect, a call for some sort of war crimes proceedings. Since the war has ended, Reuss has remained silent on the subject of war crimes, and he will probably follow the lead of his colleagues on Capitol Hill in letting the matter rest...
...troubled by the frequent mispronunciation of political names over the air. Thone sent a questionnaire to every member of Congress, followed up with phone calls, and in 1971 issued his first pronunciation guide. Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hébert shows up as (A-bear), Wisconsin Representative Henry Reuss as (ROYCE), Hawaiian Spark Matsunaga as (maht-sue-NAH-gah). Unfortunately, not all of Thone's colleagues are satisfied with the directory. Said one Congressman of Ohio's tyrannical Wayne Hays (HAYS), chairman of the House Administration committee: "You pronounce it King...