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 […]
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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 […]
Rep. Rangel’s gavel and Caribbean trips
Politico reports on the House Ethics Committee’s report on Rep. Rangel’s Caribbean travel. The House ethics committee decision to admonish Rangel for taking two corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean has turned up the heat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman — with even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that Rangel’s actions don’t pass […]