Just as the Kansas City Royals were coming from far behind to win the World Series during the last weekend of October, Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, was trying to stage a dramatic rally of his own. Only a few days before, his goal of presiding over a thorough reform of the U.S. income tax code had seemed virtually dead. But Rostenkowski called extraordinary Saturday and Sunday sessions of his committee in an attempt to breathe new life into the tax-reform effort. Though the meetings broke up at dinnertime, giving the baseball fans...
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