Word: rostenkowski
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Champagne corks were popping in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon when the call came from the vanquished to the victor. "Well, Mr. President, you're tough," said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "You beat us." Indeed he had, and with surprising ease. In the final legislative battle over Ronald Reagan's economic program, 48 House Democrats deserted their party to help the President win a 238-to-195 victory on a vote for a bill that provides the largest tax cut in U.S. history. "We have made a new beginning," exulted the President...
CHICAGO: Once he was a congressman, now he's a con ? but today he came a little closer to freedom. Former House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski entered a new kind of House yesterday ? a halfway house...
...ROSTENKOWSKI The Cook County machine is back: Dems recapture seat he lost following scandal...
Results were mixed among the Republican freshmen who upset longtime Democratic powers in 1994. Michael Flanagan two years ago stunned everyone by dethroning Dan Rostenkowski, overlord of the House Ways and Means Committee. On Tuesday, though, Flanagan fell to Rod Blagojevich and a Chicago Democratic machine no longer burdened with defending a Representative under a 17-count federal corruption indictment, as Rostenkowski had been. On the other hand, the biggest giant killer of them all, George Nethercutt, held on to the Washington State seat he had snatched from Tom Foley, House Speaker until...
Democrats are hoping Flanagan's election two years ago--filling the seat of indicted Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski--was a fluke caused by Rostenkowski's legal shenanigans. But Flanagan, the first Republican representative from Chicago in more than 30 years, has acquitted himself well in Washington, earning positions on three major committees. This may make a difference to constituents used to having influence on Capitol Hill...