Washington - Rangel Denies Giving Up House Ways and Means Chairmanship |
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March 2, 2010 08:51 PM
Last updated on: March 2, 2010 09:22 PM
News Source: NBC New York / AP
Last updated on: March 2, 2010 09:22 PM
News Source: NBC New York / AP
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. Rangel says he will not step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee even though the ethics committee found that he violated House rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP) Washington - Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel now says he will step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, NBC News has learned.
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He may make the move as early as tonight and Michigan Democratic Rep Sander Levin will temporarily take over the committee.
Some details still need to be ironed out, but sources said Rangel has been pushed to step down before the House voted on a bill to forcefully strip him of the coveted chairmanship.
But AP is reporting that Rangel denies he is stepping down from House Ways and Means chairmanship.
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Mar 02, 2010 at 08:43 PM yosse nathan Says:Report as Inappropriate
the should force Charles Rangel to retire or quit .
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Mar 02, 2010 at 08:58 PM TaxYid Says:Report as Inappropriate
Adios Charlie
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Mar 02, 2010 at 09:09 PM Glenn Beck Says:Report as Inappropriate
This ganef should step down from congress. Go to jail, go directly to jail. Do not pass go do not collect $200,000.
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Mar 02, 2010 at 11:24 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Oif al sharpton oichet gazagt. They could be call mates and every time a black man gets beat up in a jail brawl they could make a rally about RACISM
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Mar 03, 2010 at 12:03 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Why is he not being thrown out of congress alltogether?
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Mar 03, 2010 at 01:06 AM Milhouse Says:Report as Inappropriate
What they got him on was the least of his offenses. What about his FOUR rent-controlled apartments, all while he declared his primary residence to be in DC? Or his car being put up at taxpayer's expense? Or his place in the Dominican Republic that was producing tax-free income for him?
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Mar 03, 2010 at 08:24 AM gop2010 Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Why is he not being thrown out of congress alltogether? ”
Because democrats only care about corruption if it's a republican.
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Mar 03, 2010 at 08:42 AM David Says:Report as Inappropriate
He shouldn't "step down." He should be removed. And then he should be expelled from Congress, for the sake of the institution's dignity-- or what little it may be said to have left.
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Mar 03, 2010 at 09:06 AM Conservative One Says:Report as Inappropriate
I just don't understand what the whole hullabaloo is at a time when our Secretary of the Treasury is a tax cheat, guys who almost madxe it into the cabinet just forgot to report income (for which you and I would go to jail for) and let's not forget that we have a president who nobody knows where he was born with the general consensus being that he was born in Kenya (which happens not to be in the United States). Charlie Rangel is a thief and should go to jail but of course everyone is afraid of Al "Tubby" Sharpton.
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Mar 03, 2010 at 09:26 AM gop2010 Says:Report as Inappropriate
Breaking news, he's stepping down,not because of integrity.But to spare the democrats election trouble,he said.