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Due to Reece's arrest for homosexuality in the early 1920s, he failed to rule Democrat committee member [[Wayne L. Hays]] (no relation to Brooks Hays) out of order in the hearings when the latter exhibited excessively rude behavior, as the Ohio representative could then publicize the past scandal in retaliation.<ref name=thenewamerican/>
Due to Reece's arrest for homosexuality in the early 1920s, he failed to rule Democrat committee member [[Wayne L. Hays]] (no relation to Brooks Hays) out of order in the hearings when the latter exhibited excessively rude behavior, as the Ohio representative could then publicize the past scandal in retaliation.<ref name=thenewamerican/>
The Republican establishment opposed the Reece Committee. According to the committee's chief investigator Norman Dodd in an interview many years later, some GOP figures slandered the group's work as supposedly "anti-Semitic."<ref>Gallagher, Kevin (June 12, 2008). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM Norman Dodd On Tax Exempt Foundations]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved October 6, 2021.</ref> Liberal GOP congressman [[Jacob Javits]] of [[New York]], later a U.S. senator, introduced a resolution in July 1954 which would establish a select committee to investigate the Reece Committee.<ref>July 22, 1954. [https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/22/archives/questions-for-mr-reece.html QUESTIONS FOR MR. REECE]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved October 6, 2021.</ref>
[[File:Wayne Hayes bioguide picture.jpg|thumb|left|Wayne Hays intentionally obstructed and derailed the Reece Committee's hearings.]]
[[File:Wayne Hayes bioguide picture.jpg|thumb|left|Wayne Hays intentionally obstructed and derailed the Reece Committee's hearings.]]