Rangel’s Future Is Stuck in Neutral
Former Ways and Means Chairman Says Everything Rests on Ethics Findings
- By Steven T. Dennis
- Roll Call Staff
- May 17, 2010, Midnight
Rep. Charlie Rangel lives in limbo.
The veteran New York Democrat still wants his Ways and Means chairmanship back, but he doesn’t want reporters to write that he’s planning to fight for it. He wants and needs the ethics committee to clear his name, but he feels it already sandbagged him with an unjustified admonishment that appears nowhere in House rules and gave him no chance to challenge the finding.
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