** FILE **Rep. Jack Venable, D-Elmore, left, and Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, right, are shown during a news conference in this Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002, file photo at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Veteran legislator and newspaper publisher Jack Venable, a respected and influential voice as chairman of the House Rules Committee, died Friday at a Montgomery hospital after a year-long bout with leukemia. He was 66. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer)