Many believe his lectern's poster should read: "Rangel Out Now."
Representative Charles Rangel, the top Democrat responsible for tax laws in the U.S. Congress, was found “guilty” of accepting Caribbean junkets from a private corporation, an act that violates the House of Representatives’ ethics rules.
On the same day that the House Ethics Committee ruled that Rangel’s action was improper, he was meeting with President Barack Obama and lawmakers from both parties at a health care summit.
While other members of the Congressional Black Caucus were under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for similar trips in 2007 and 2008, all were exonerated by the panel, according to a source on Capitol Hill.
His ethics violation should be cause for removal of Rangel from the chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, but some believe he will not be forced to give up chairing that committee and he will not voluntarily step down.
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