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Ethics Panel Finds Charlie Rangel Broke House Rules
Topic Started: Feb 25 2010, 07:07 PM (226 Views)
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Ethics Panel Finds Charlie Rangel Broke House Rules
Updated 6:47 PM EST, Thu, Feb 25, 2010

An ethics panel has found that House Ways and Means Chairman, Charlie Rangel broke congressional rules, a source told the AP.

Last year the House ethics committee expanded its investigation of Rangel to include his revisions to financial statements that revealed assets and income not previously reported.

Earlier the Harlem Democrat had withstood a GOP sponsored resolution that called for Rangel to to surrender his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.

The ethics committee was also looking into Rangel’s use of multiple rent-stabilized apartments, his fundraising on behalf of the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College in New York, and his failure to pay taxes on a Dominican Republic vacation home.

Rangel is also being investigated in a separate ethics committee probe of Caribbean trips in 2007-08 by five members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The committee has authorized nearly 150 subpoenas in the investigation of Rangel, has interviewed some 34 witnesses and reviewed more than 12,000 pages of documents.
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Guess who was at the 0bamacare summit today on the democrat side...........
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Sounds like he's pre-qualified to join the WH staff.
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Feb 25 2010, 07:44 PM
Sounds like he's pre-qualified to join the WH staff.
You are right he is qualified to join the WH staff, but he will get re-elected in his district, no one ever runs against him. He even owned property in NJ near where I live, that he never declared.
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What is the Punishment?

And why the timing?

Yes, Rangel was front-and-center today. This finding would have been more helpful 5 hours ago.

Is Nancy cleaning up "the Sewer?"

The media is complicit.


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Too much to ask for Shepherd Smith to know this info... maybe he should read the blogs.

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I am guessing Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the hosts on FOX won't bring it up tonight either. I emailed it to Hannity a while ago. The only way I see it gets brought up is by a guest.
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Feb 25 2010, 07:55 PM
What is the Punishment?

And why the timing?

Yes, Rangel was front-and-center today. This finding would have been more helpful 5 hours ago.

Is Nancy cleaning up "the Sewer?"

The media is complicit.


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Rangle should be in jail, not in the U.S. Congress. Nancy loves the guy. I remember when he was renting low rent apartments, meant for the poor, for his congressional offices. Nancy never cleaned anything in her life, let alone a sewer.
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Feb 25 2010, 07:55 PM
What is the Punishment?
Punishment? Heck, he'll probably win a cruise and a congressional medal.
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The punishment is re-election...
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33564.html


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The House ethics committee's decision to admonish New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel over improper corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean leaves both Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the ethics committee itself facing some difficult questions.


When then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was admonished by the ethics committee in October 2004, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders went on the offensive against him.


“Mr. DeLay has proven himself to be ethically unfit to lead the party,” Pelosi said at a press conference the following day. “The burden falls upon his fellow House Republicans. Republicans must answer: Do they want an ethically unfit person to be their majority leader or do they want to remove the ethical cloud that hangs over the Capitol?”


Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) — now the House majority leader — said DeLay "certainly ought to step aside as leader at this point in time because I think his credibility has been undermined by these findings."


Six years later, the shoe is on the other foot: Republicans have previously called for Rangel to lose his chairmanship over his ethical troubles, and some of them — including Indiana Rep. Mike Pence — renewed that call Thursday night.


How will Pelosi and Hoyer respond?


Neither had anything to say about Rangel's future Thursday night, but the issue is certain to be a central topic for Democratic leadership in the days ahead.
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Feb 25 2010, 11:12 PM
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33564.html


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The House ethics committee's decision to admonish New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel over improper corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean leaves both Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the ethics committee itself facing some difficult questions.


When then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was admonished by the ethics committee in October 2004, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders went on the offensive against him.


“Mr. DeLay has proven himself to be ethically unfit to lead the party,” Pelosi said at a press conference the following day. “The burden falls upon his fellow House Republicans. Republicans must answer: Do they want an ethically unfit person to be their majority leader or do they want to remove the ethical cloud that hangs over the Capitol?”


Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) — now the House majority leader — said DeLay "certainly ought to step aside as leader at this point in time because I think his credibility has been undermined by these findings."


Six years later, the shoe is on the other foot: Republicans have previously called for Rangel to lose his chairmanship over his ethical troubles, and some of them — including Indiana Rep. Mike Pence — renewed that call Thursday night.


How will Pelosi and Hoyer respond?


Neither had anything to say about Rangel's future Thursday night, but the issue is certain to be a central topic for Democratic leadership in the days ahead.
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What will they say - nothing. Madame Speaker of the House has her own inimitable wya of ignoring any question she does not want to anwer or answering in such a way that the intent of the question is obscured beyond belief. Charlie Rangel is an out and out crook sho should be locked up with the likes of Bernie Madoff - both used the law illegally to profit for their own personal use. Rangel will get a pass only because he has friends in high places.
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