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...consider it an ethical swamp and those who regard that comparison as unfair to swamps. As the members return to work this week, they have an even worse public image to contemplate: not only sleazier but more paralyzed as well. Last week's indictment and demotion of Dan Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was a double whammy. In a short time he has come to symbolize both Congress's lingering tawdriness and its desperate need for a dealmaker to keep the place functioning. "Most people think members of Congress -- all members of | Congress -- have their...
...Rostenkowski case is especially painful because it joins a roll call of recent roguery. The Keating Five, the congressional post office, the House bank, the dubious book scheme of House Speaker Jim Wright -- that litany is at least partly the result of new regulations that Congress has imposed on itself. Even so, will voters care that tighter rules and closer scrutiny are part of the reason? Probably...
Which is why, as they head toward this year's midterm elections, incumbents worry about fallout from the Rostenkowski indictment. Former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon remembers how, just weeks before his unsuccessful 1992 primary bid against Carol Moseley-Braun, the House banking scandal erupted onto Chicago's front pages. "My polls dropped 7 points in one day, and we didn't even have a bank in the Senate...
Congressman Dan Rostenkowski came out fighting today, saying he will not plead guilty to any of the 17 charges federal prosecutors have brought against him. The Illinois Representative was forced to give up a key House leadership role because of the indictment, but he proclaimed forcefully that "I will prevail" in the ongoing case. The prosecution claims Rostenkowski may have gained as much as $650,000 in a series of misuses of office over the past two decades. "Some ask, 'How could you have done these things?' " Rosty told a pack of reporters outside the court. "The answer is simple...
Legal woes are pushing Rostenkowski out at Ways and Means...