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Should Congressman Rostenkowski have influence over legislation on health care and other issues while charges against him are being heard...
Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons eased into the plum job of House Ways and Means Committee chair after ex-chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted. But his hold on the gavel may be tenuous. The buzz among Democrats is that a challenge to Gibbons will be mounted in January if he fails to persuade the committee to back a version of Clinton's health-care bill before July 4 or is unable to muster credible influence when and if such a bill comes up in the full House...
After months of investigation, negotiation and speculation, powerful House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted on 17 federal counts for having allegedly engaged in a broad 20-year pattern of corruption. Among the charges: tampering with a grand-jury witness and embezzling more than $500,000 in public funds to pay office workers hired mainly to perform personal services. The indictment forced him to relinquish his pivotal chairmanship to Florida's Sam Gibbons as a result of House Democratic Party rules...
...Rostenkowski is indicted -- and Congress...
Charged with mail fraud and embezzlement, among other things, Representative Dan Rostenkowski has vowed to lick the charges