On May 30, 1994, Roll Call, a weekly newspaper for Capitol Hill, boasted an emphatic headline on its front page that read, Congress Has Strictest Ethics Rules in World, According to a New CRS Study of 24 Nations. But the ethics of Congress proved less scandalous than the headline for the Thursday edition that same week which announced in heavy bold type, Rosty Indicted on 17 Counts. These telling words condemned Representative Dan Rostenkowski, Democrat of Chicago and chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, for his graft charges
