charlie rangel

On Monday, The New York Times ran a damning story detailing how the nation’s drug makers are hiking their prices ahead of the reform laws winding their way through Congress. The very next day, some powerful House Democrats called for a closer look, asking the Government Accountability Office to examine the drug industry to verify [...]

Another day. Another expansion of the Democrats’ stimulus proposal — and not in ways we might have anticipated.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved its portion of the $825 billion stimulus package Thursday afternoon, including $275 billion in tax cuts.
While the original bill would allow businesses to recover taxes paid over the last five years [...]

Well, House Democrats managed to get through the whole John Dingell/Henry Waxman scrum without too much fallout (or so it appears). But questions linger over how party leaders will handle the Charlie Rangel mess.