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	Dan Rostenkowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dan Rostenkowski served in the U.S. Congress as a U.S. Representative for Illinois from 1959 to 1995.
		Rostenkowski's political career was shattered in 1994, when he was indicted on corruption charges, for his key role in the Congressional Check Kiting Scandal, and was forced to step down from all Congressional leadership positions.
		Rostenkowski's conviction is often seen as a contributing factor in the 1994 Republican victory in the House, led by Newt Gingrich and his Contract with America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski (377 words)

	Rostenkowski, Dan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rostenkowski became chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in 1981.
		In 1994, Rostenkowski was indicted on corruption charges and stepped down as Ways and Means chairman; he lost his House seat in the Congressional elections later that year.
		Rostenkowski was pardoned by President Clinton in 2000.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ro/RostenkD.html (170 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Dan Rostenkowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rostenkowski's political career was shattered when in 1994, he was indicted on corruption charges and was forced to step down from all Congressional leadership positions.
		Rostenkowski was pardon (A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense) ed in 2000 by President William Jefferson Clinton (42nd President of the United States (1946-)).
		Rostenkowski was born in 1928 in Chicago (Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan), Illinois (A Midwest state in north-central United States).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dan-Rostenkowski (1383 words)

	Rostenkowski Hopes To Set Forth On the Road to Redemption - 01-24-98
		It is Dan Rostenkowski, the no-bull realist from the city of plain-speaking pols.
		Rostenkowski's reign in Washington ended in 1996 when he pleaded guilty to reduced charges in exchange for federal prosecutors dropping a broad complaint alleging that he ran multiple petty scams from his office.
		Rostenkowski has received encouragement from old friends such as former Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore. (1969-95), who was driven from office by a sexual harassment scandal, and his onetime political protege, Tony Coelho (1979-89), the former House Democratic whip who left office under the cloud of financial scandal.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/26/cq/koszczuk.html (2500 words)

	Online NewsHour: Back In Action-- April 24, 1998
		DAN ROSTENKOWSKI: This, of course, is the first time that I stand and concede the defeat and wish my opponent well.
		ELIZABETH BRACKETT: These days Rostenkowski spends his time in the office in the building his grandfather built before the turn of the century, the same office his father used when he was a powerful Chicago alderman with his young son nearby.
		Rostenkowski has only been to Washington twice since his release from prison, but he says he doesn't miss it as much as he thought he would.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/jan-june98/rostenkowski_4-24.html (1198 words)

	newStandard: 4/10/96
		WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the longtime chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, has agreed to plead guilty to two corruption charges and accept a 17-month prison term, a source close to his case said yesterday.
		Rostenkowski could be in court as early as this week to enter the plea to charges that effectively ended his political career, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
		Rostenkowski, 68, was charged in May 1994 with converting $636,600 in federal funds and $56,267 in campaign funds to his personal use.
	www.s-t.com /daily/04-96/04-09-96/1rost.htm (361 words)

	Fallen Rep. Rostenkowski recounts prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CHICAGO - Dan Rostenkowski went from being the chief architect of congressional tax policy to a prisoner responsible for watching a pressure gauge on a water tank.
		The 70-year-old Rostenkowski said he was surprised by the scope of the federal investigation that led to his 1996 guilty plea on two counts of misuse of federal funds.
		Rostenkowski was released from a Chicago halfway house Oct. 15 and returned to the house in his old neighborhood where he has lived most of his life.
	www.iowatelecom.net /~sharkhaus/usatoday_rostenkowski.html (554 words)

	Rostenkowski
		Dan Rostenkowski's grandparents, all but one of whom were born in Poland, were well suited to serve as community leaders.
		Dan's mother, Priscilla Dombrowski, had three brothers; one of them, Edward, became superintendent of the Chicago State Hospital and was a prominent researcher of osteomyelitis, a bone disease.
		The most important early influence on young Dan was Peter Rostenkowski, his paternal grandfather, who was born in Poland in 1868 and settled as a child in Stevens Point, a timber center in central Wisconsin.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/c/cohen-rostenkowski.html (5002 words)

	Chicago Reporter September 1991: Latinos Snubbed by Rostenkowski, Lipinski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rostenkowski declined to comment, and Lipinski did not respond to repeated requests to be interviewed.
		Rostenkowski was not involved in her campaign because she worked with ward committeemen, Santos said.
		Rostenkowski's PAC gave Berrios $1,000 for his successful campaign, but Berrios said the congressman's endorsement was worth more than the money.
	www.chicagoreporter.com /1991/09-91/0991LatinosSnubbedbyRostenkowskiLipinski.htm (2745 words)

	Dan Rostenkowski - TheBestLinks.com - Chicago, Illinois, Poland, USA, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago, Illinois, Poland, USA, United States Democratic...
		Dan Rostenkowski served in Congress as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995.
		Rostenkowski was pardoned in 2000 by President William Jefferson Clinton.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dan_Rostenkowski.html (171 words)

	Booknotes
		Dan Rostenkowski was among the half-dozen most influential members of Congress during the second half of the twentieth century, Richard E. Cohen writes in his biography, Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics.
		Because Rostenkowski served so many years in Congress (1959-1995), his career offers a prism into the changing nature of the institution and of the Democratic party, a change that gradually brought a new bitterness to Washington politics.
		The rise and fall of Dan Rostenkowski mirrors the rise and fall of the House Democrats.
	www.booknotes.org /Program?ProgramID=1533 (342 words)

	Tax Analysts: Economic Perspective: 94 TNT 88-42 (Copyright, 1994, Tax Analysts)
		It really doesn't matter whether Rostenkowski gets good advice because he has the sense to seek it, or whether it has fallen into his lap due to the efforts of many individuals in the past to make strong institutions out of Ways and Means and the Joint Committee.
		Rostenkowski loves trying to lead a committee, a Congress, even a president and a people to a course of action.
		If one wants to lead well, moreover, he or she understands the power of the first statement that sets the agenda, the first draft whose core cannot easily be abandoned, and the "chairman's mark" that determines what will be discussed and under what rules it will be amended.
	www.taxanalysts.com /www/econpers.nsf/cfa3e4167d7590dc852566db00614d4d/0109b39073863861852566db0061eafe?OpenDocument (993 words)

	Gesture doesn't erase his crimes [Free Republic]
		She might believe, as I do, that Rostenkowski already received a partial pardon of sorts when federal prosecutors dismissed the most serious charges against him in exchange for him accepting a 17-month prison sentence.
		She knew all about the ghost worker charges, which included allegations that Rostenkowski used his congressional payroll to pay for a photographer for his daughters' weddings, remodeling work on his home and a bookkeeper for his family insurance business, among others.
		Rostenkowski denies all of those charges and was not convicted of any of them.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a4733375f09.htm (860 words)

	Dan Rostenkowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They point to the conviction of former US Rep. Dan Rostenkowski or Ryan and say they hadn't adjusted to the times.
		"Rostenkowski said if everybody's unhappy with a piece of legislation, it's probably a pretty good bill," Dreier said, citing Dan Rostenkowski, a former...
		Dan Rostenkowski served in Congress as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1958 to 1994.
	www.wikiverse.org /dan-rostenkowski (273 words)

	LifeCourse Associates: Media Center: Media Clips: 04/07/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rostenkowski, then a congressman from Illinois and the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was besieged by a crowd of 50 senior citizens in Chicago.
		The protesters were angry about a new law that provided catastrophic coverage for Medicare recipients, but with an income-tax surcharge of up to $800 a year that was set to rise to $1,050 in 1993.
		Rostenkowski under assault struck fear in the hearts of politicians that remains to this day.
	www.lifecourse.com /media/clips/020407_nyt.html (942 words)

	Medill - Northwestern University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dan Rostenkowski admits he should have paid more attention to the rules.
		Rostenkowski defended Illinois Gov. George Ryan (R), who has been dirtied aplenty over the ongoing truck-licenses-for-bribes scandal dating to his eight years as Secretary of State.
		Rostenkowski lustily defended his record as a legislative wheeler-dealer during 36 years in Congress; in particular, his 14 years as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which determines spending.
	www.medill.northwestern.edu /medill/inside/news/rosty_rules_changed_i_didnt.html (974 words)

	Merriner, James L.: Mr. Chairman
		The story of Dan Rostenkowski's rise and fall provides one of the keys to how power is sought, won, exercised, and distributed in contemporary America, argues political journalist James L. Merriner.
		Rostenkowski is not a complex man in need of psychoanalysis on the part of his biographer, and Merriner does not indulge in much of that.
		His sources are the public record, previous interviews with Rostenkowski and with many other sources before and after 1995, and his own political acumen gained from decades on the political scene.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/f99_titles/merriner_mr.htm (622 words)

	All about Dan Rostenkowski. ChiTownAds.com is more than just ads, it's your source for all kinds of information on ...
		Rostenkowski's life in Congress had some interesting personal elements, in terms of his rise and his fall, his tough years after the Chicago Convention of 1968, his return as Ways and Means Committee Chairman, and his struggles with divided government.
		Rostenkowski was indicted on 17 counts (including embezzling public and campaign funds, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice) just six months before the Democrats lost their majority in the House for the first time in 40 years.
		Rostenkowski's campaign treasury also paid more than $106,000 to cover the legal bills of Virginia Fletcher, an administrative assistant who handled bookkeeping in his Washington congressional office.
	www.chitownads.com /chicago/people/rostenkowski.php (1141 words)

	AllPolitics - Pundits and Prose - Stephen Gettinger
		Dan Rostenkowski's April 9 guilty plea and his subsequent self-absolution may send him to jail and bring his legal saga to an end.
		But at the center of the indictment was the charge that Rostenkowski pocketed $49,300 in public and campaign funds through sham transactions made to look like stamp purchases.
		As soon as Rostenkowski pleaded guilty to the charges involving payroll abuse and improper gifts, he marched out of the courtroom to declare himself functiona lly innocent.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/pundits.prose/gettinger/gettinger2.shtml (864 words)

	Dan Rostenkowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dan Rostenkowski served in Congress Congress quick summary:
		Rostenkowski's political career was shattered when in 1994, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Rostenkowski was born in 1928 in Chicago[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dan_rostenkowski.htm (450 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Money Talks
		Originally charged in a 17-count indictment with embezzling public and campaign funds, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice, former House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski officially joined the ranks of convicted white collar felons this week when he plead guilty to two counts of mail fraud.
		Terry Gabinski, a long-time political ally who had put several of Rostenkowski's relatives on the city of Chicago's payroll, collected $51,105 from the campaign to cover the cost of retaining counsel when questions arose concerning the nature of the work performed for Rostenkowski by Gabinski's wife, Celeste.
		Celeste Gabinski, who was paid $79,000 for Congressional work that some of Rostenkowski's other employees claimed she never did, received $4,991 from the campaign to cover the cost of legal advice required when she was cited for contempt of court and forced to testify before the federal grand jury.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/money/archive/money041596.htm (816 words)

	Amends to justify his means (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski appeared last night at the prison symposium to share his insights, there was more at stake than his stance on building more prisons.
		Ironic in his switch, as well as his timing, Rostenkowski rejected a plea bargain two years before the accepted deal that would have carried only one admission of guilt and a six-month prison sentence with a $38,000 fine.
		Rostenkowski asked the young man what he would do if he could go back and be given a shorter sentence with the condition of serving out his full term if he was caught near drugs again.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /fall98/9-24-98/Rosty.html (1001 words)

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		Rostenkowski, by the way, was one of those guys who was trying to manage Americans' lives, raising their taxes, and coming up with punitive laws and regulations on achievers.
		Rostenkowski was one of those guys who wanted to run health care for everyone, and who believed they know better than anyone else how to spend their money for them.
		Rostenkowski, though, is still unbowed by his convictions and insists he's not done anything wrong but is just taking the fall for what everyone else was doing.
	www.asc.upenn.edu /courses/comm575/041096.TXT (10698 words)

	The Daily Beacon
		Some pertinent pre-election reading is Dan Rostenkowski's brief in defense of himself and an audacious proposition.
		Rostenkowski says that House rules, which he calls "amorphous and transient," provide no standards by which a court could decide, for example, whether a member has violated the rules which grant "vast discretion" regarding the use of office funds and employees.
		In a stinging response, prosecutors say he is claiming that the "the whole question of whether he systematically looted the public treasury" is "beyond the reach of criminal law." The "speech or debate" clause is derived from the desire of the Constitution's framers to protect candor in legislative deliberations.
	dailybeacon.utk.edu /showarticle.php?articleid=18228 (578 words)

	Back to the Future: Will the Senate's Madcap Drug Derby End in A Catastrophic Medicare Crash?
		Writing in the July 24, 2002 edition of The Washington Post, former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, the once powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who served from 1959 to 1995, recalled that experience and concluded that Congress is now engaged in an unreal debate.
		As Rostenkowski relates, under the 1988 Medicare bill, beneficiaries would secure Medicare payment for 80 percent of their drug costs, after paying a $710 annual deductible, and an income-based premium payment starting at $4 per month and capped at $800 per year for the wealthiest retiree.
		Rostenkowski says that the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 failed because of serious political mis-steps and mistakes in its implementation.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HealthCare/WM132.cfm (788 words)

	Lectures examine civility in politics
		The series in October and November welcomes Portland mayor Tom Potter, former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, and political scientists David D. Laitin from Stanford University and Arlene W. Saxonhouse from the University of Michigan.
		Former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) will discuss “Partisanship and Camaraderie in American Politics.” Rostenkowski served in Congress from 1959 to 1995 and chaired the House Ways and Means Committee.
		Rostenkowski now heads Danross Associations, a Chicago consulting firm, is a political commentator for Fox television, a senior fellow at Loyola University Chicago, as well as a speaker and college lecturer.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1129570200.1 (451 words)

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