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- NATION, Page 20WASHINGTONWho's Sorry Now?
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- As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
- Representative John Dingell has gained a reputation as Capitol
- Hill's fiercest -- and most feared -- watchdog on fiscal
- prudence. His well-publicized investigations have focused on
- everything from wasteful military spending to sloppy accounting
- for federal research funds at universities. So whose name should
- be high on the list of congressional check bouncers? Yes, John
- Dingell's.
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- The Michigan Democrat admitted writing nine checks that
- his House bank account could not cover during a five-week
- period in early 1990. All were inadvertent, he asserted through
- a spokesman, and were covered as soon as they were discovered.
- "It was an honest mistake," said aide Dennis Fitzgibbons. "These
- bounced checks did not cost the taxpayer any money. The
- overdrafts were voluntarily disclosed."
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- And what did the grand inquisitor himself have to say? No
- comment.
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