{"id":680489,"date":"2010-03-02T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:07:42","slug":"why-is-charlie-rangel-still-head-of-ways-and-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680489","title":{"rendered":"Why is Charlie Rangel still head of Ways and Means?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/03\/nyregion\/03rangel.html?hp\" >spinelessness or hypocrisy from the Democrats<\/a>. Both shoes probably fit.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Caught in a swirl of ethics inquiries, Representative\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about Charles B. Rangel.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/charles_b_rangel\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Charles B. Rangel<\/a>, the dean of the New York Congressional delegation, appeared to be losing his grip on his powerful post as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday night as Republicans planned to force a vote insisting that he step aside.<\/p>\n<p>The House ethics committee last week admonished Mr. Rangel, an ally of Speaker\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about Nancy Pelosi.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/nancy_pelosi\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, for violating Congressional gift rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The ethics panel is still investigating more serious allegations regarding Mr. Rangel\u2019s fund-raising, his failure to pay federal taxes on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic and his use of four rent-stabilized apartments provided by a Manhattan real estate developer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6924\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s either spinelessness or hypocrisy from the Democrats. Both shoes probably fit. From the link: Caught in a swirl of ethics inquiries, Representative\u00a0Charles B. Rangel, the dean of the New York Congressional delegation, appeared to be losing his grip on his powerful post as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781948,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680489\/revisions\/781948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}