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Clinton said last week that if the Stark plan crossed his desk, he would sign it "because it does what I ask." But that is unlikely to happen. House and Ways Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski predicts that the bill that will ultimately pass muster with his 38-member panel will be "much more conservative" than Stark's plan. Though two Senate committees and three House committees are now jockeying for the spotlight, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Finance Committee is expected to emerge as the final arbiter of compromise. The question is just how badly the Hill's titans will...
...Stephens isn't exactly a household name, but you can bet Bill Clinton knows all about him. Until last year, when the President fired every one of the nation's 93 U.S. Attorneys, Stephens was leading the federal investigation of House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski for allegedly misusing his $1.3 million campaign fund, a probe intertwined with the House post-office scandal. Clinton's sacking of the federal prosecution chiefs is believed by some of the dismissed to have been a way of getting Stephens off Rosty's back. Now, though, Stephens is engaged in an even more...
Though battered by a federal probe into his financial dealings with the scandal-ridden House post office, House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski, one of the President's chief allies in the health-care battle, won his toughest Democratic primary yet. The victory was due in no small part to all-out help from Chicago's famed political machine and heavy campaigning by top national Democrats, from Clinton on down...
Even if the old pol does lose the election, he would not step down until January. But he might still be the lamest of ducks, trying to use 36 years' worth of connections and favors to have his way one last time. Rostenkowski seems game, whatever happens. Of the health plan, he says, "I think we're going to produce a bill by September." He adds: "I'd rather go out with a bill on the floor and lose it than just bag it." Spoken like a man who knows how to return a favor...
POLITICS: First Aid for Rostenkowski...