Ethics committee recommends censure for Rangel

[The Onyx Key]

Source: Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – The House ethics committee on Thursday recommended censure for longtime Rep. Charles Rangel, suggesting that the New York Democrat suffer the embarrassment of standing before his colleagues while receiving an oral rebuke by the speaker for financial and fundraising misconduct.

Censure is the most serious congressional discipline short of expulsion. The House, which could change the recommended discipline by making it more serious or less serious, probably will consider the recommendation after Thanksgiving.

The ethics committee voted 9-1 to recommend censure and that Rangel pay any taxes he owes on income from a vacation villa in the Dominican Republic. The five Democrats and five Republicans on the panel deliberated for about three hours behind closed doors.



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Sillyness.

[derby378]

1. Might as well before the incoming House Repukes kill the Ethics Committee

You think they won't? Just watch...

[dkf]

2. That sounds pretty lucky to me.

[dkf]

3. Sounds like those lawyers were a complete waste too

[FBaggins]

5. Yep. You don't need lawyers when you have no defense.

Why pay for them?

[defendandprotect]

4. Been trying to watch on C-span .... evidently Rangle said he had no money for lawyer--!!!

Another interesting one with a female Dem from MO after them

is an investigation into the Afghanistan contracts for reconstruction -- Wow!!!