(Wall Street Journal) — Rep. Charles Rangel has established a defense fund that will allow supporters to contribute as much as $5,000 a year to help pay his legal bills. The New York Democrat still owes money to his former lawyers, who represented him in an ethics case that ended with his censure. The Charles […]
(AJC) — The state’s investigation into test tampering at Atlanta Public Schools took an ominous turn last week for the teachers and administrators implicated in the scandal. Many had faced disciplinary action by the state commission that licenses educators. Now, some of them may be charged with crimes. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard on Tuesday […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Rep. Maxine Waters, in response to a delay in her ethics trial, will ask the House to investigate the ethics committee’s decision to place two of its lawyers on administrative leave. The personnel action has played a role in the indefinite delay of her case. She introduced a resolution Tuesday that asks […]
(New American Media) — Politics does, indeed, make strange bedfellows. How else to characterize one of Congress’s loudest, most outspoken ultraconservatives, Rep. Peter King of New York, protesting the House vote to censure Harlem congressman Charles Rangel, an African-American, a Democrat, and a longtime paragon of liberalism? Of course, King’s defense of Rangel had nothing […]
He still doesn't get it: "I leave here knowing that everyone knows I am an honest guy.''
(New York Times) — With the hour of his reckoning drawing near, RepresentativeCharles B. Rangel on Wednesday morning asked thousands of his supporters to call the Capitol switchboard and ask their congressmen to vote against a measure that would censure him for an assortment of ethical violations. The last-minute appeal, e-mailed to 25,000 people on […]
It's not yet clear if the move is related to the handling of Maxine Waters' case.
(Roll Call) — Top Congressional Black Caucus members are rejecting suggestions that an unprecedented number of public embarrassments in recent months have diminished the group’s clout. CBC veterans have dominated the news lately, but not for their successes. Monday was supposed to mark the start of the ethics trial of Rep. Maxine Waters, but the House […]
(The Grio) — As Congress returns from its Thanksgiving recess it still has a lot on its plate. In the final stretch of this lame-duck 111th Congress, legislators must address George W. Bush-era tax cuts, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and ratifying a new arms-control treaty with Russia. With all of the important issues left to […]
(New York Times) — Hoping to avoid the lasting stain of Congressional censure and the indignity of the public scolding that accompanies it, Representative Charles B. Rangel has embarked on a last-ditch campaign to convince colleagues that he deserves the far less serious punishment of a reprimand for his ethics violations, according to two people close […]
(AP) — Supporters of Rep. Charles Rangel said Sunday that the Democratic lawmaker has been punished enough by the House ethics committee’s two-year investigation and should not by censured by the full Congress. “Charlie Rangel is a giant,” said former Mayor David Dinkins. “He’s a man who has served not only the 15th Congressional District […]
Rep. Maxine Waters said the postponement was tantamount to vindication.