REP. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, THE CHAIRMAN of the all-powerful House Ways and Means Committee, recently confided to a friend that his stomach feels like hamburger meat. That's understandable, considering ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dan Rostenkowski was considered one of the most powerful members of Congress during the second half of the 20th century. He grew up and raised his own children in a building on ...

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Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has died at the age of 82. Processing Content He served in Congress from 1959 to 1995, and joined the committee ...

With his rumpled suits and gruff, growling voice, former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski was far more comfortable behind closed doors than in front of the camera or behind a podium. Rostenkowski left speeches ...

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Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a ...

Brad Haynes reports on politics.Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, who spent more than a year in the Big House after a corruption conviction, mused today on Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a ...

Rostenkowski, 82, died at his Wisconsin home Wednesday morning. His legacy includes the reworking of the country's tax system and prison time for corruption. "Sometimes one person gets singled out," ...

Inside the Chicago church where he was baptized and confirmed, former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski was remembered Tuesday as a guy from the neighborhood who just happened to be one of the most powerful ...

CHICAGO -- Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died ...