Charlie Rangel
WASHINGTON (AP) - A House ethics panel has found Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York guilty on 11 counts of breaking House rules. The full ethics committee will next conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for the former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The committee will then make a recommendation to the House. Possible punishments include a House vote deploring Rangel's conduct, a fine and denial of privileges. Ref. USAToday
Censured
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House ethics committee is recommending that 20-term Rep. Charles Rangel of New York be censured and pay any unpaid taxes for financial and fundraising misconduct. The House will likely consider a censure motion after Thanksgiving. If it passes, Rangel would suffer the embarrassment of standing before his colleagues and receiving an oral rebuke by the speaker. Ref. USAToday
The Associated Press has called New York Rep. Charlie Rangel's four-way Democratic primary for the 22-term incumbent. Rangel edged out state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in the Harlem-centered district. Espaillat, who came within about 1,100 votes of unseating Rangel in 2012, had posed a serious threat to the third-most-senior member of the U.S. House, thanks in part to his voter base in the district's growing Dominican-American community. Ref. USAToday