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...carried him to Seattle for a meeting with 13 Asian and Pacific leaders, he called Lane Kirkland of the AFL-CIO to say their bitter differences on the trade pact should not prevent them from joining forces on health-care reform and worker- retraining plans. He called Dan Rostenkowski and urged the House Ways and Means Committee chairman to push the languishing jobless-benefits bill. From the White House, Hillary Clinton joined in, telephoning Tom Donahue, Kirkland's secretary-treasurer, to make amends. "The President," said one aide, "is into healing...
When a U.S. Attorney announced that a second grand jury would be digging deeper into House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski's involvement in a stamps-for-cash scam, it seemed like bad news for Rosty. In fact, it appears his defense team couldn't be happier: sources in the U.S. Attorney's office had promised an October indictment, but now it's unclear when an indictment will come. Furthermore, former House postmaster Robert Rota has changed his story, and some of his testimony is in question...
...easy to enter an intellectual coma on the last day of exams (or even earlier) and sleep through the summer without ever picking up a newspaper or watching the evening news. So in case you missed Dan Rostenkowski's stamp-gate, the White House's suicide-gate, Ross Perot's talk-show-gate, General John Shalikashvili's Nazi-gate and Jesse Helm's Dixie-gate, here are the highlights of the summer...
...Rostenkowski moved steadily closer to indictment, but politics forced Clinton to stand...
...surprise that Bennett has appeared at the side of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has been implicated in the congressional post office stamps-for-cash scandal. "The chairman decided he'd better get a fighter," explains a Rostenkowski friend. "Bennett is a tough trial lawyer who's not going to make a deal." Rostenkowski -- a major force in reshaping President Clinton's budget -- could be indicted on charges far exceeding the 29-penny- ante stamp scam, including misuse of campaign funds. After days of stonewalling, the chairman called a press conference...