Politics

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In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, a wounded Afghan army soldier lis on a stretcher waiting to be seen, while more serious cases are attended to, inside the ER at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois listens to his attorney talk to reporters outside the federal courthouse Tuesday, April 9, 1996 in Washington after pleading guilty on two counts of mail fraud. Rostenkowski was immediately sentenced to 17 months in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. (AP Photo/Cameron Craig)

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Dan Rostenkowski was elected to his first term in Congress in 1958. A Democrat, he represents the 8th District on Chicago's Nortwest Side. (AP Photo)

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Rep. Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, testified Aug. 19, 1968 before the Democratic Platform Committee during hearings in Washington. (AP Photo)

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Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee meet at Capitol Hill in Washington where it was indicated that they would support a two-year tax cut plan in opposition to the three-year one offered by the Reagan administration, June 3, 1981. From left are panel members Sam Gibbons of Fla. and chairman of the panel Dan Rostenkowski of Ill. Men in center and right are unidentified aides. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

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Members of a joint Senate-House conference on social security get together, Monday, Nov. 16, 1981 in Capitol Hill to discuss the problems of the program. From left are: Senate Budget Director Robert Dole, R-Kan.; house ways and means chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill. and Rep. Barber Conable, R-N.Y. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

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Pres. Jimmy Carter, right, chats with acting Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic, left, and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., at the White House, Monday, Feb. 7, 1977, Washington, D.C. News photographers were not permitted to photograph the meeting. (AP Photo/ White House)

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Lawmakers watch closely as Pres. Ronald Reagan signs into law a landmark tax overhaul on the White House South Lawn, Oct. 22, 1986, Washington, D.C. From left, are: Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, Rep. Raymond McGrath, R-N.Y.; Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., Rep. Frank Guerini, D-N.J.; Sen. Russell Long, D-La.; Rep. William Coyne, D-Pa., and Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

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U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a pen to Rep. W. R. Archer, R-Texas, after signing H.R. 4206, Tuesday, April 10, 1984 in Washington at the White House. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Service code of 1954 to exempt from federal taxes of military employees of the U.S. who have died overseas. With the President from left, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Archer. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

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Rep. Sam Gibbons, left, D-Fla., confers with Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., before a meeting of House and Senate deficit conferees, Tuesday, June 20, 1984 at Capitol Hill in Washington. The negotiations stalled when House Democrats served notice they will not trim Medicare and other health programs as long as Senate Republicans seek tax breaks for business and the wealthy. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

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U.S. President George H. Bush waves to photographers as he walks with Reps. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, left; and Bill Archer, R-Texas, ranking Republican on the same committee, right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 24, 1989. Bush attended the committee's Capitol Hill dinner. At far left is first lady Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

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Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, left, chats with former 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro during a campaign rally on Sunday, March 13, 1994 at Rostenkowski's campaign headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. Ferraro said she volunteered to campaign for Rostenkowski. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell)

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Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois departs the federal courthouse Tuesday, April 9, 1996 in Washington after pleading guilty on two counts of mail fraud. He was sternly told by a judge that he brought "a measure of disgrace" to Congress. Rostenkowski was immediately sentenced to 17 months in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)

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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Ill., shown during an appearance at the National Press Club Thursday, February 9, 1989, promised to oppose President Bush's proposal to reduce capital gains taxes. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

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** FILE ** Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (right), then-chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Robert Dole, then-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, chat outside a hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington in 1982. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

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** FILE ** Former Illinois Rep. Dan Rostenkowsi (right) and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale discuss the legacy of the late Chicago politician Richard J. Daley in 2005 at a 50th-anniversary celebration marking the start of Daley's long tenure as mayor. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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Pakistani volunteers unload sacks of flour provided by the U.S. government in Kalam in Pakistan's Swat valley on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. U.S. Army choppers carrying emergency food and water buzzed over the swollen river and washed-out bridges, landing in the valley once controlled by the Taliban. They returned laden with grateful Pakistani flood survivors. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)

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Pakistani volunteers carry a sack of flour provided by the U. S. government in Kalam in Pakistan's Swat valley on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. With Pakistan reeling from two weeks of flooding that has killed 1,500 and affected nearly 14 million people, the aid and rescue mission by the U.S. military gives Washington a chance to strengthen a sometimes troubled alliance that is crucial to fighting militancy in the region and ensuring a stable Afghanistan. (AP Photo/B.k.Bangash)

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Maj. Gen. Thomas Katkus, center, adjutant general of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell , right, and Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters, speak at a news conference about the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens. The plane carrying Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe crashed into a remote mountainside in Alaska, killing the longtime senator and a number of others, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rachel D'oro)

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Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colo., celebrates with his wife Susan Dagget after winning the Democratic primary at an election party on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 in Denver. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)