Category: House

The Post’s Richard Cohen discusses Rep. Charlie Rangel’s ethics issues in his column today. But he suffers from the degenerative disease called Congressional Sclerosis. Its symptom is the belief that the rules, especially the petty ones, no longer apply to you. This happens over time. It comes with seniority and a sense of victimization that […]

This Post editorial suggests Rep. Rangel should leave his Ways and Means chairmanship. We called on Mr. Rangel to resign his coveted post last November while the House ethics committee probed his contact with a potential donor to a pet project who also had business before the committee. Mind you, that committee already was looking […]

The Hill reports that some lawmakers have called on Rep. Rangel to release his tax returns.