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While Feldstein had few fans within the Administration, his honesty and forthrightness earned him support on Capitol Hill. On learning of his resignation last week, Daniel Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said, "There goes the White House's last link to economic reality...
...liberal front-runners. Either one would probably make fine senator; but Kerry has yet to really speak up and Shannon's quintessential insider reputation is a bit worrisome. Shannon actually lets it get around that he does things like share a late-night cigar with Rep. Danny Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Rostenkowski, to say the least, is not your most devout liberal...
...House side, such Democrats as Oklahoma's Jim Jones, chairman of the Budget Committee, and Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois are eager to attack the deficit. Rostenkowski said that his committee would begin work this week on a $51.2 billion revenue-raising bill...
...bring up again a plan to cut the deficit by $150 billion over three years through a combination of less military spending, slower growth in entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and major tax increases. In the Democratic-controlled House, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski is willing to support a bill for a tax boost "as high...
...dithered for months over its most basic responsibility: funding the vast operations of the Federal Government. Now it was in a frantic haste to adjourn. In a sudden spasm of activity, it fell all too short of meeting its self-imposed spending and revenue limits. Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pronounced a scathing verdict on the legislators' performance. "As we leave Washington," he predicted, "word of our impotence will precede us. We have put special interests on notice that we can be pushed around. We have confessed to an already doubting nation...