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...Your agenda is my agenda," said Dan Rostenkowski when he greeted Bill Clinton on Capitol Hill last week. Coming from the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who will be a key player in shepherding the new President's economic program through Congress next year, that seemed a reassuring pledge. But there may be a problem: TIME has learned that this mainstay of Clinton's legislative strategy could be severely shaken -- if not toppled -- by the results of a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of Rostenkowski's $1.3 million campaign fund...
...From House Ways & Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski: hair products and a golf putter worth...
...least two lawmakers, Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski and House Budget chairman Leon Panetta, went to Foley and asked if he was gay. Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts who is openly gay, told Russ to stop discussing the FBI report. Russ himself has denied ever spreading stories about the report. As the whispers swirled around Capitol Hill, a staff member at the Republican National Committee wrote an insinuating memorandum to state party officials that described Foley as "coming out of the liberal closet." In private meetings with colleagues and at press conferences, Foley denied being homosexual...
...about it. And we means-tested it and ((made sure it was)) paid for by the group that would use it and need it the most. And there was a fire storm over that. I'll never forget the pictures on television of ((House Ways and Means chairman)) Dan Rostenkowski having his car nearly tipped over in his district because elderly people were so angry they might have to pay a few hundred dollars a year...
...protege of House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, Russ also enjoyed the backing of former House majority whip Tony Coelho and ex- House Speaker Jim Wright. But he was unable to earn the trust of House Speaker Tom Foley. Two years ago, after the General Accounting Office disclosed that the House bank had cashed $232,000 in bad checks in the 12 ! months ending June 30, 1989, Foley directed Russ to halt overdrafts in the free check-writing and check-cashing service. Russ never...