Kenneth Klee was about to go on a Mexican vacation in 1975 when he got a call from his office in the U.S. House of Representatives, where the young lawyer was helping Virginia Republican M. Caldwell Butler rewrite the federal bankruptcy code.
New York City was preparing to file bankruptcy in the middle of a fight with city unions over expensive labor contracts. Klee was ordered back to Washington to quickly draft the section of the code governing municipal bankruptcies.
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