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Old 09-25-2008
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Rangle to get investigated

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its about time though I'll be shocked if he gets so much as a tut tut tut...


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Marcia Kramer WASHINGTON (CBS) ¯ CBS 2 has learned the House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry into Rep. Charles Rangel, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The ethics committee of Congress announced they established a subcommittee to investigate Rangel, who has already been in plenty of hot water recently.

One stunning part of the determination is that the committee decided to investigate his use of congressional stationery in three separate years to seek donors for a public policy institute in his name at City College.

The committee will also investigate Rangel's use of four rent-stabilized apartments leased in the Lenox Terrace apartment complex in Harlem, the financing of the beachfront villa leased in the Dominican Republic, and his questionable storage of a late-model Mercedes Benz in the house garage.

In a statement the committee said it will determine whether Rangel "violated the Code of Official Conduct, or any law, rule, regulation or other standard of conduct applicable to his conduct in the performance of his duties."

The committee gave no indication of how long the probe will take.
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Re: Rangle to get investigated

They'll take the same decisive action they've taken against William Jefferson.

In other words, they won't do anything.

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Re: Rangle to get investigated

In Washington DC the use of the word "investigation" (when it involves a Democrat) is a euphemism for "we are gong to do nothing". If Rangel were a Republican, he'd have been forced to resign.
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Re: Rangle to get investigated

Based on everything I have heard thus far, Rangel should get a slap on the wrist in-so-far as his seat is concerned, but given the nature of the mistakes he made, he should have to relinquish the Chairmanship of the Weighs and Means Committee. Someone who gets their own taxes wrong for that long has no business chairing the committee that writes tax law.
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