Roll Call reports that the recent matter involving Rep. Rangel implicated staff activities, as well. The subcommittee report, adopted by the full Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, cited precedents for the decision, but legal experts and government reform advocates suggested the decision could effectively expand Members’ liability for the actions of their aides. “The […]
Day: March 2, 2010
More on Rep. Rangel and House Ethics
This morning’s Roll Call discusses Rep. Rangel and the House Ethics Committee report on Caribbean trips. Senior Democratic aides pointed to several other factors breaking in Rangel’s favor, including the muddled nature of the ethics rebuke, which found that while he was responsible for the mistakes of his staff in accepting a pair of corporate-sponsored […]