Word: rostenkowski
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...emerging deal still faces many obstacles, and Dole and Rostenkowski will meet privately this week in the Capitol to tackle them. If a final bargain is reached, the Democrats will insist that Reagan give it unqualified public support before it is brought to a vote. Says Wright: "If Congress is going to give birth to his child, then Reagan must own up to its paternity." -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/Washington
...drama unfolds in Congress, a pivotal role belongs to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. It is a rich bit of casting: for the next few weeks, an old-style Chicago ward heeler will be the nation's premier economist-accountant-social philosopher...
...Rostenkowski, 53, known widely as "Danny," is a member of an endangered species: a dyed-in-the-polyester Cook County pol trained by late Mayor Richard J. Daley to put party before everything. Rostenkowski learned his lesson well. He once impressed House Democrat Richard Gephardt of Missouri by following up some legislative support he had promised with a simple note: "I keep my word. Dan." Says Chicago political analyst Don Rose of Rostenkowski: "He is not an ideological politician. He is Mr. Practicality...
...Born in Chicago in 1928, he was educated at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis., served in the infantry in Korea, and was graduated from Loyola University in 1951. A baseball player who was once invited by Connie Mack to try out for the Philadelphia Athletics, Rostenkowski reluctantly obeyed his father, a Chicago alderman, and entered politics instead...
...much inclined to author legislation, Rostenkowski over the years has built a reputation on the Hill as likable, earnest, cautious,and absolutely trustworthy. Among the show horses of Congress, he is a workhorse. Rostenkowski was close to his goal of becoming Speaker when the 1968 Democratic Convention intervened. Lyndon Johnson, watching the convention slide into disarray as violence escalated in Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination...