Rangel Wants to Keep Gavel

By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff

September 11, 2008

Embattled Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) acknowledged Wednesday that he owes about $5,000 in back taxes to the federal government and a similar amount in state and city taxes on rental income from a vacation property. But he pushed back against Republican demands he give up his gavel while the ethics committee probes the issue, along with two other matters involving the veteran Harlem legislator.

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