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Daniel David Rostenkowski was born Jan. 2, 1928, into one of Chicago's leading Polish-American political families. His father was an alderman. Rostenkowski was educated at St. John's Academy, a ...

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The backers of health care reform began to contemplate life without one of their central strategists Wednesday, and most concluded their task would be tougher but not impossible if Dan Rostenkowski ...

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 ...

I don’t know how many Americans will note the death of former Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, but it comes at a symbolically ominous moment for Democrats, who are already trying to beat back a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of mourners, including some former congressional colleagues and the city's mayor, packed a Chicago church Tuesday to pay final tribute to former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, a ...

Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democratic machine pol who was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the 1980s, kept a picture in his office given to him by President Ronald Reagan. It ...