{"id":681028,"date":"2010-03-02T23:49:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72883"},"modified":"2010-03-03T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:09:08","slug":"himes-rangel-should-give-up-his-gavel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681028","title":{"rendered":"Himes: Rangel should give up his gavel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Jim Himes says he thinks Charlie Rangel ought to resign as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If&nbsp;I were in&nbsp;Congressman Rangel&#8217;s position,&nbsp;I would step aside from my chairmanship at this point,&#8221; Himes, a Democrat from the 4th District, said in a brief phone interview earlier today. <\/p>\n<p>Last week,&nbsp;the House ethics committee found that Rangel, a Democrat from New York, violated&nbsp;House rules by accepting&nbsp;Caribbean trips sponsored by corporations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&nbsp;are enough allegations out there that the commitree is still studying that&nbsp;I think Congressman Rangel will find it increasingly hard to serve in the leadership capacity in which he has served,&#8221; Himes said.<\/p>\n<p>Himes is&nbsp;a freshman who is considered vulnerable.&nbsp;He has already come under fire from state GOP chairman Chris Healy for accepting campaign contributions from Rangel. Himes has donated the contributions, which totaled $16,000, to&nbsp;several charities in Southwestern Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Jim Himes says he thinks Charlie Rangel ought to resign as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. &#8220;If&nbsp;I were in&nbsp;Congressman Rangel&#8217;s position,&nbsp;I would step aside from my chairmanship at this point,&#8221; Himes, a Democrat from the 4th District, said in a brief phone interview earlier today. Last week,&nbsp;the House ethics committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-681028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681028","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\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}