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John Boehner: Rangel, Waters Should Face Ethics Trials Before Election
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Republican leader John Boehner joined the five GOP members of the House Ethics Committee Wednesday in urging that the ethics trials of two senior Democrats be held before the November election. He said Reps. Charlie Rangel (N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (Calif.) "deserve a chance to clear their names." Both Rangel and Waters have been formally charged by the committee for multiple violations of House rules, but have not had trials scheduled to respond to those charges. "If I recall, both Mr. Rangel and Mrs. Waters asked the Ethics Committee for a speedy trial so that they could clear their ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Davids Meet Goliath in Politics Today
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWakie, wakie, Capitolists! It's Election Day in several states across the country and reckoning day for a few candidates who seem to believe that being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. Read all about those candidates, and what's happening in Washington, in the next 60 seconds: - Taxing Work in Congress. The Senate gavels into session at 10 a.m., when senators will debate a small business bill in front of the C-SPAN cameras, but will be debating the future of the Bush tax cuts behind closed doors. Democrats can't get on the same page about keeping tax cuts away from ...
As Charlie Rangel Awaits Ethics Charges, Pelosi Says, 'We Drained the Swamp'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Thursday that Democrats have lived up to their promises to create the most ethical Congress in history, even as Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) awaited word on the formal charges against him coming Thursday from the House Ethics Committee. "Drain the swamp we did," Pelosi said. "Will there be individual issues to be dealt with? Yes. I never said there wouldn't be." The speaker, who served seven years on the Ethics Committee before she joined the House leadership, would not comment on Rangel's situation specifically. Republican Leader John Boehner contended ...
Adam Clayton Powell IV Starts Run Against Rangel
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 12) --The son also wants to rise. New York State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of the first African-American to be elected to Congress in the state of New York, said today he intends to challenge Charles Rangel in this year's Democratic primary for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The two men have a history. Rangel's victory over Powell IV's father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in the 1970 Democratic primary led to the civil rights icon's subsequent departure from Congress. Seth Wenig, AP New York State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, center, announces ...
Michigan's Sanford Levin Named to Head House Ways and Means Committee
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRep. Sanford M. Levin, a 78-year-old liberal with close ties to the automobile industry, has been selected to chair the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, succeeding on an interim basis, at least, Rep. Charles Rangel, who was forced to step aside amid an ethics investigation. Levin (D-Mich.), a strong opponent of free-trade deals with foreign business partners, was elevated by House Democratic leaders over Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), who has an edge in seniority. The Washington Post said Stark was bypassed because of concern among rank-and-file Democrats that he is prone to abrasive ...
Scandals Break (and Break and Break) in New York
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsNEW YORK (March 3) -- Political scandals are piling up at an astonishing pace in New York, even by the standards of a state distinguished for dysfunction. Within just a few hours today, three scandals involving New York politicians emerged, each with its own twist. Gov. David Paterson, who is holding onto his seat as serious allegations that he intervened in a domestic abuse case on behalf of an aide are investigated, faced a separate set of charges for allegedly accepting free World Series tickets. Rep. Charles Rangel, who has been accused of a variety of ethics charges involving taxes, ...
Charlie Rangel Steps Down as Ways and Means Chairman
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) has temporarily given up his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, days after being admonished by an ethics panel for taking two corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean in violation of House rules. In remarks Wednesday morning in a House press gallery, Rangel said he had sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi "asking her to grant me a leave of absence" until the ethics committee completes its investigation. The announcement leaves the door open for Rangel, 79, to reclaim the position if he is eventually cleared by the ethics committee. The panel ...
Ethics Panel Concludes Charlie Rangel Broke House Rules
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) broke congressional rules by failing to disclose the financial details of a trip to the Caribbean, a House ethics committee concluded Thursday. The finding was related to accusations that Rangel and four other members of Congress traveled to a conference in St. Maarten on the dime of a donor who employs lobbyists, a violation of House rules. Rangel falsely reported the trip was paid for by the Carib News Foundation, which had underwritten his travels in the past, The New York Times reported. The four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the ...
Leaked Report Reveals Dozens of House Members Under Ethics Investigation
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA staffer inadvertently placed a confidential report on a public computer network, revealing that more than 30 members of the House of Representatives are under ethics investigation, the Washington Post reported Friday. The probe, by the secretive House Ethics Committee, also includes congressional aides and focuses on issues like defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling. Such investigations are routine and usually result in a private letter of either reprimand or exoneration.The document revealed that the ethics panel interviewed Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) about a trip he took with ...
Is It Time for Charlie Rangel to Go?
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyShould he stay or should he go? Here's the charge: As detailed below, New York Democratic Congressman Charles B. Rangel has failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars of income and to pay taxes on that income. Thus, he has failed to abide by the very tax laws he has had a hand in writing.In itself, such a failure is a serious matter. And when the person in question heads the House Ways and Means Committee, as Rangel has since 2007, it is even more so. Because all revenue-raising bills must pass through this committee, the chairman is in a unique position. Ways and Means has had plenty ...
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