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Instead of taking swift action House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is letting the investigation of fellow Democrat Charles Rangel hang like a dark cloud over the next congress.
From the Politico.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing growing pressure to replace Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) atop of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, but so far she’s sticking with the embattled chairman.
In a statement released late Wednesday, Pelosi said she is prepared to wait for the House ethics committee to complete its investigation of Rangel’s personal finances, which is slated to occur before the official end of the 110th Congress in early January.
But Pelosi also signaled that she does not want Rangel’s problems hanging over House Democrats indefinitely, and some action on the embattled congressman is expected early next year, maybe even before President-elect Barack Obama is sworn into office.
“In September, I called on the House Ethics Committee to look into issues raised by news reports on Chairman Rangel. This followed up on the chairman’s own request for an investigation by the Committee,” Pelosi said in her statement.
“I have been assured the report will be completed by the end of this session of Congress, which concludes on Jan. 3, 2009. I look forward to reviewing the report at that time.”
The uncomfortable state of limbo with one of the most senior chairmen has provided an opening Republicans and outside ethics experts to criticize Pelosi’s standards and question her pledge to “drain the swamp.” Democratic leaders and rank and file members have also been remarkably silent about what to do with Rangel.
Rangel knows he is in trouble and rather than do the honorable thing and step down he chosen to remain silent about the issue hoping that Pelosi and others will absolve him. If Obama really wants change maybe he can tell Speaker Pelosi that removing Rangel would be an appropriate change.
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2 Comments for Pelosi Providing Cover for Rangel
Every crooked Democrat stays in his position no matter what the charges but the Republicans are pressured to step down by the fly by night media.
Think Trent Lott, Tom Delay,and a handful of others. Republicans are always forced out or forced to apologise numerous times and then still are tainted in the medias eyes. A democrat can give a half assed apology like Dick Durbin and that’s the end of it. Dick Durbin isn’t the only one who has given these half assed apologies either. The double standard is sickening. When are the Democrats going to get some moral values?
Oh no, the race card. Get used to it because we are going to hear a lot of that in the next four years. Brian you sound so temperate. Where were you over the hysteria accompanying every so called republican corruption?