Too much. Tax cheat Charles Rangel (Dem-NY) says he won’t answer Rep. John Boehner’s question because he doesn’t want to violate House Ethics laws. From today’s House debate on nationalized health care: Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006. Just remember… [...]
The Rules Committee will meet today at 2pm to discuss the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962. It will aired be live on C-SPAN 2. [Ed. Note: FDL News Desk will also be covering this Rules Hearing.] 2:06 – Rep. Charles Rangel begins by reading on opening statement in [...]
Redistributing whose wealth? BY: Burt Prelutsky For some peculiar reason, America's left-wingers object to being called socialists. In fact, we have only one member of Congress, Vermont's Bernie Sanders, who has the gumption to admit he is one. Still, so far as I can tell, he's no more socialistic than any of the other leftist pinheads in Washington. I mean, the truth is, Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi,...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles Rangel is likely to be cleared on one of a half-dozen ethics charges, it was reported yesterday. Rangel and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus may be exonerated of allegations of rule violations stemmin...
Rep. Charles Rangel’s supporters believe race might be playing a role in the embattled veteran Harlem Democrat's mounting troubles with the House ethics committee , the DN's Michael Saul reports. “We know that when a person reaches - particularly a person of African descent - this kind of position in power, on behalf of all poor people....that represents a real threat to, I think, not...
Filed under: Opinion , Politics , Race and Civil Rights Wait a minute now. Unless I'm reading it wrong, it looks like racial profiling has jumped from the 'hood to Capitol Hill. According to a Politico article , the House Ethics Committee is actively investigating seven African American lawmakers under full-scale ethics probes, but not a single white person serving in Congress is under the same kind...
African-American politicians have long complained that they’re treated unfairly when ethical issues arise. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are still fuming over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to oust then-Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) from the House Ways and Means Committee in 2006, and some have argued that race plays a role in the ongoing efforts to remove Rep. Charles Rangel...
By Donald Zuhn -- Last Thursday, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) introduced the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) in the House of Representatives. The 1,990-page bill, which was co-sponsored by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ), George Miller (D-CA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Pete Stark (D-CA), and Henry Waxman (D-CA), includes a section (§ 2575) providing for the establishment...
The Kucinich bill would allow states to form their own single-payer systems: As reported earlier, House leaders have stripped the Kucinich amendment from the House health care reform bill. This amendment would help nullify legal challenges against efforts by individual states to enact their own single-payer systems. [...] According to Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America, one avenue of...
I blame it on their primo weed. You must be kidding, mon. Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel can't fill out a tax form, but he's now a knight -- at least in Jamaica. The Democratic Prince of Pork -- who...
The Post reports that Rep. Charles Rangel "was inducted last week into the Order of Jamaica, the Caribbean commonwealth's highest distinction and the equivalent of knighthood," and then mocks, "The Gallant Knight of 125th Street -- who also holds distinguished titles such as Duke of Tax Dodge, Lord of Largesse and Sultan of Sweetheart Deals -- will join a list of other Order of Jamaica"...
Just call him Sir Chuckles.You must be kidding, mon. Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel can't fill out a tax form, but he's now a knight -- at least in Jamaica. The Democratic Prince of Pork -- who owns valuable tracts of land, some of them off the books -- was inducted last week into the Order of Jamaica, the Caribbean commonwealth's highest distinction and the equivalent of knighthood.
You must be kidding, mon. Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel can't fill out a tax form, but he's now a knight -- at least in Jamaica. The Democratic Prince of Pork -- who owns valuable tracts of land, some of them off the books -- was ...
Under fire for failing to act against corrupt lawmakers, the notoriously remiss House Ethics Committee is in fact scrutinizing dozens of legislators, according to a highly confidential memorandum that mysteriously appeared this week. Washington D.C.’s largest newspaper reports that an internal memo, inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, indicates that the ethics committee...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Charles Rangel is one of those under investigation, obviously. A document leaked to the Washington Post reveals that over 30 members of Congress are being investigated for ethics violations. Most cases are related to allegations of influence peddling with corporate or defense lobbyists — which, given everything we know about Congress, while depressing, really isn't entirely shocking. More surprising...
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