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...loophole-ridden income tax law. The President put his name behind another, more modest plan known as Treasury II last May and promoted it with whistle-stop tours around the U.S. But the tax-reform movement slowed to a crawl until a month ago, when Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, the Ways and Means chairman, started engineering the new proposal. "We have done," he boasts, "what many people thought couldn't be done...
...tends to happen. Again and again, it was not big violations of the law or congressional rules that landed Washington power brokers in trouble as much as smaller lapses in judgment: House Speaker Jim Wright over how his book was being sold, Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski over his exchange of stamps for cash at the House post office, Democratic whip Tony Coelho over a questionable junk-bond investment, and eight lawmakers who lost their seats in 1992 in part over checks they bounced at the House bank...
...prescription plan; the two plans were so elaborate and confusing that even politicians had a tough time telling them apart. Conclusion? Broaden the message. "Look at the Democratic gubernatorial candidates who won," says Rahm Emanuel, a former top Clinton adviser elected to the House seat once held by Dan Rostenkowski. "They were all forward-looking, competent, pro-growth candidates, but they ran on health care and made it the center of the debate. Not prescription drugs but health care...
...Clinton grants his first batch of pardons to 62 people, including former Representative Dan Rostenkowski, convicted of misuse of public funds...
Champagne corks were popping in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon when the call came from the vanquished to the victor. "Well, Mr. President, you're tough," said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "You beat us." Indeed he had, and with surprising ease. In the final legislative battle over Ronald Reagan's economic program, 48 House Democrats deserted their party to help the President win a 238-to-195 victory on a vote for a bill that provides the largest tax cut in U.S. history. "We have made a new beginning," exulted the President...