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To: bentway who wrote (510341)	9/4/2009 12:47:14 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580597

DOUBLE STANDARD? "Do House Democrats have a double standard when it comes to ethics?" Newsweek's Holly Bailey asks in a blog at newsweek .com. "Word broke earlier this week that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to allow Rep. Chuck Rangel to keep his chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means Committee despite continuing ethics problems. The latest revelation: he failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets on his financial-disclosure forms over the past several years," the writer said. "According to amended forms recently filed with the House, Rangel failed to disclose at least $800,000 in assets and income since 2002. The latest dust-up comes amid an ongoing House ethics investigation into other questionable acts by the New York congressman, including his failure to report income from and pay taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic and his ties to a real estate developer who leased him four rent-stabilized apartments in New York. The panel is also looking into Rangel's fundraising and whether he improperly used his office to raise money for a public policy center in his name at the City University of New York. ... "But does this meet the standard Pelosi talked about when Democrats took control of the House and she bragged about ending a 'culture of corruption' in Washington? In eyeing the Rangel situation, it's hard not to remember the repeated calls by Pelosi and other Democratic leaders for [former Republican House Majority Leader Tom] DeLay to be ousted when he was under an ethics cloud for his ties to corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and questionable fundraising tactics."