It’s official. A House Ethics subcommittee given the duty of weighing the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y) has found the 20-term legislator guilty of 11 separate ethics violations. Rangel faced charges for accepting rent-stabilized apartments in Manhattan, failing to report income and pay taxes on a rental income from More…
Now that Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y) managed to successfully dispatch a crowded field of challengers in his Harlem, N.Y. Democratic primary yesterday, he’s finding out who’s still his friend in Washington this morning over breakfast.
Following up on the ethics committee’s organizational meeting, in which they officially laid out the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), The New York Times writes that the committee’s 40-page report substantiated the four major charges against him — improper solicitation of donations for a school named in More…
Draft legislation extending a number of key tax credits for the renewable energy sector is circulating around Capitol Hill this week. Renewable energy groups have been pushing for an extension of the tax credits for months as part of a coordinated lobbying push. The bill, which could change considerably, will More…
At what point does a campaign contribution cross over from Washington status quo to illegal quid pro quo? That’s what the Office of Congressional Ethics has been attempting to probe in its ongoing investigation into eight House members who solicited and received large campaign contributions from the financial services More…
This afternoon, the House failed to pass a standalone bill that would have extended federal unemployment insurance benefits. Last week, the jobs bill pending in the Senate — containing those benefits as well as Medicaid aid for states and dozens of other provisions — died. Each week that Congress fails More…
It’s not the permanent fix they were looking for, but the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest lobby of doctors, said yesterday that it supports the Democrats’ proposal to postpone a pay cut for Medicare doctors until 2014 — a temporary solution that kicks the problem down the More…
Perhaps the strangest element of Capitol Hill’s months-long health reform debate has been that Democrats — proposing to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans while banning the worst abuses of the insurance industry — have been branded a public enemy, while Republicans — hell bent on killing the reforms More…
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 More…
Seems it’s not just White House appointees who struggle with tax delinquencies.
At a House panel hearing today, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who heads the Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee, revealed the results of the panel’s investigation into the top recipients of federal help under the Wall Street bailout. More…
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