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...Worked as an aide to U.S. Representative Rush Holt and served as a fellow in the office of U.S. Representative Charles Rangel...
...Rangel's spokesman Emile Milne says no one is more eager than the chairman to see the Ethics Committee finish its work. "Chairman Rangel requested the review by the Ethics Committee and is confident that he behaved appropriately in these matters," Milne said in a statement he e-mailed to TIME.com. "He looks forward to leading the Ways and Means Committee in January as the new Congress works in partnership with our new President to create jobs and help our struggling families...
...Means Committee, which not only writes tax law but also oversees trade policy and is responsible for the nearly half of the federal budget that goes toward Social Security, Medicare and means-tested entitlements. Complicating the matter for House Democratic leaders is the lack of an obvious successor for Rangel at this time of economic turmoil. The next in line for the post by seniority is California Congressman Pete Stark, one of the most liberal and hotheaded members of Congress. He has been known to challenge other members of the committee to fight him and once called a Republican colleague...
Meanwhile, Rangel, 78 - one of the most recognizable and beloved figures on Capitol Hill - has gone to war with his hometown paper, particularly after its editorial page urged him to step aside as chairman while the ethical questions are being investigated. "His temporary yielding of the gavel is an urgent necessity for a Democratic Congress elected two years ago on promises of an ethical housecleaning," the New York Times editorialized in September. Earlier this week, after the paper published even more serious allegations, Rangel wrote a scathing letter to the editor denying that he had done anything improper with regard...
...Friday, yet another potential problem surfaced for Rangel, when Politico.com reported that he had paid his son $80,000 in campaign funds "for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create." Says congressional scholar Tom Mann: "It's very sad, but it's sort of one thing after another ... It's still too early to tell what the resolution will be, but it certainly isn't helpful that new items keep emerging...