Veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, the raspy-voiced, backslapping former chairman of one of Congress' most powerful committees, was censured by his House colleagues for financial misconduct Thursday in a solemn moment of humiliation in the sunset of his career.
"I brought it onto myself," Rangel told the House. But he also said politics was at work.
After the 333-79 vote, the 80-year-old Democrat from New York's Harlem stood silently at the front of the House and faced Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she read him the formal resolution of censure.
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Veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, the raspy-voiced, backslapping former chairman of one of Congress' most powerful committees, was censured by his House colleagues for financial misconduct Thursday in a solemn moment of humiliation in the sunset of his career.
"I brought it onto myself," Rangel told the House. But he also said politics was at work.
After the 333-79 vote, the 80-year-old Democrat from New York's Harlem stood silently at the front of the House and faced Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she read him the formal resolution of censure.
heh...."I brought it onto myself" sounds like a confession "Politics was at work" and excuse and he pleaded that he did not deserve censorship...yep the man is a politician
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as i understand it, this tax evading defrauder who was in charge of writing tax law, got a 40 second slap on the wrist for something that Wesley Snipes is headed for the federal pen for.
nice.
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as i understand it, this tax evading defrauder who was in charge of writing tax law, got a 40 second slap on the wrist for something that Wesley Snipes is headed for the federal pen for.
nice.
Yep.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
as i understand it, this tax evading defrauder who was in charge of writing tax law, got a 40 second slap on the wrist for something that Wesley Snipes is headed for the federal pen for.
nice.
There is a difference. It is my understanding that Rangel went to the IRS and worked out a deal to pay them off a certain percentage so the balance owed would be dropped. Snipes has refused to pay. If I am wrong on this, maybe someone with more knowledge on it can correct me.
Veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, the raspy-voiced, backslapping former chairman of one of Congress' most powerful committees, was censured by his House colleagues for financial misconduct Thursday in a solemn moment of humiliation in the sunset of his career.
"I brought it onto myself," Rangel told the House. But he also said politics was at work.
After the 333-79 vote, the 80-year-old Democrat from New York's Harlem stood silently at the front of the House and faced Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she read him the formal resolution of censure.
Is he allowed to hold his office after this?
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Any politician in his position would be able to hold office after this-- as long as he is elected. He just won't be as influential as he once was-- which was already waning anyway.
The man is 80 years old!
Tax payer dollars wasted on investigating an 80 year old who did what?
Once the investigation was complete America was so much the better!
Now that he is censured (which means very little anyway) the sun will shine on America's economy, starting tomorrow!
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