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Ethics panel expands Rangel probe

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Ethics panel expands Rangel probe - John Bresnahan and Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

The House ethics committee has unanimously voted to expand its investigation into embattled Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, promising to further investigate Rangel’s latest re-statement of his personal finances.

The growing investigation comes as Rangel continues to fight off Republican attempts to oust him from his chairmanship – the House voted largely along party lines on Wednesday to allow Rangel to keep his gavel while the ethics panel continues its months-long probe of the Harlem Democrat.

The committee’s wide-ranging investigation already included an inquiry into Rangel's use of rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem luxury building, his fundraising on behalf of the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College in New York, a tax provision for a million-dollar donor to the center and his failure to pay taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic.

And now the panel is looking into why Rangel understated the values of certain assets in his personal financial disclosures by $600,000.
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I have to say that I'm impressed that this wasn't brushed under the rug.
 
I for one welcome the republicans return from their eight-year hiatus from being concerned with ethics and law-abiding.
 
The only party that gives a hoot about ethics is the party that can use it as a tool to get back into power. Ethics complaints are merely tools to get votes.

Again, only fools think we have two real, distinct parties.
 
obvious Child said:
The only party that gives a hoot about ethics is the party that can use it as a tool to get back into power. Ethics complaints are merely tools to get votes.

Again, only fools think we have two real, distinct parties.
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I don't see how your second statement (if true) supports your first. It's possible to be in favor of rigorous ethical standards regardless of party.
 
RightinNYC said:
I don't see how your second statement (if true) supports your first. It's possible to be in favor of rigorous ethical standards regardless of party.
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On an individual politician level, I'd agree. But when it comes to a party level, the past decade has, at least in my opinion, shown that parties only give a crap about ethics as a tool to bludgeon the opposition. Once they get into power, they don't give a crap about ethics.

The second statement just shows that both parties are really the same. Both harp on ethics as a minority party....and then go do unethical things when they get into power.
 
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