Before him was a Republican, elected largely because DanRostenkowski, his predecessor and one of Washington's most powerful congressmen, had been indicted.
DanRostenkowski, the steak-and-martinis Chicago Democrat who reigned over the House Ways and Means Committee for 13 years, used to write off many of his golf outings as campaign expenditures.
One who has already said he might run is a former one-term congressman, Michael Flanagan, who is most famous for beating that redoubtable old Democratic baron, DanRostenkowski, after he was indicted for corruption in 1994.