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Remember When Nancy Pelosi Promised Democrats Were Going to Clean Up the ‘Culture of Corruption’ in Washington?

Posted on | November 18, 2010 | 7 Comments

Charlie Rangel: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! And now he’s going to get a very serious wrist-slapping:

The House ethics committee’s chief counsel recommended Thursday that veteran Rep. Charles Rangel be censured for financial and fundraising misconduct as lawmakers neared closure on an embarrassing 2½-year-long scandal. . . .
Rangel on Tuesday was found guilty of 11 of the 13 charges of ethics violations against him by a panel of four Democrats and four Republicans.
That finding came after a two-year long investigation into charges against Rangel that relate to his personal finances and his fundraising efforts for a new center at New York City College. . . .
A censure or a reprimand is a legislative procedure where the full House, by majority vote on a simple resolution, expresses a formal disapproval of the conduct of a member, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The censured representative generally must stand before the House and receive the rebuke, but entails no actual loss of privileges.

In other words, a meaningless verbal scolding. He gets to keep his job, his pension, etc. Michelle Malkin live-blogged the hearings, complete with Rangel claiming he had been “smeared” and John Lewis calling Rangel a civil rights hero.

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  • http://www.uncoverage.net GoldenEagle4444

    To prove he’s the gift that keeps on giving, Rangel has now used hundreds of thousands of PAC money dollars to pay his defense counsel. Those charges should be presented the first week of the 112th Congress. Then, with a Republican at the helm of that hearing, a finding of EXPULSION from the House is in order. It will be a long overdue ruling.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Wasn’t Joe “You Lie” Wilson censored and fined?

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    The old and the busted: I am not a crook (Richard Nixon)
    The new hotness: I am not a crook (Charlie Wrangle)

  • RES

    I dunno – it strikes me as pretty aggravating to have to be finger-waggled by that crew of yellow-bellied hypocrites.

  • http://twitter.com/RightKlik RightKlik

    Remember when Pelosi lost her majority?

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