Barring a last-minute deal, an eight-member House panel will hear the details of the ethics charges filed against the powerful New York Democrat and former head of the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Rep. Rangel Case Poised To Go To Ethics Panel (source: NPR)
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House Ethics Committee Advances Charges, Rep.
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Rangel Charged Wtih Ethics Violations (source: ABC News)
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President “Regrets” Firing, Urges Shirley Sherrod to Continue Working President of the United States - Barack Obama - President - United States - History (source: ABC News) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
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Obama Calls Sacked USDA Employee (source: ABC News)
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White House Releases Ethics Waivers to Show Some Investments and Interests of Commissioners; Questions Remain (source: CBS News) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
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Oil Industry Interests Run in Spill Commission (source: CBS News)
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Veteran New York Democrat Charlie Rangel temporarily stepped down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. This after the ethics panel admonished him for breaking House rules on corporate-sponsored trips — and after Democrats began… (source: NPR) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
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Rangel Temporarily Gives Up Leadership Role (source: NPR)
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There’s been much talk among anti-Obama, Tea Party activists of a legal concept called nullification. The belief is that if the citizens of a state decide they don’t like a federal law passed, the 10th Amendment gives them the power to simply ignore it.
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Idea Of Nullification Gains Steam In Texas (source: NPR)
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President Barack Obama on Wednesday laid out a final road map for Congress to pass an overhaul of the nation’s health care system. He offered to include a few more Republican ideas into the plan, but the GOP said the new items were just tokens that didn’t …
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Obama Makes Another Health Care Push (source: NPR)
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Powerful Democrat Involved in Another Ethics Scandal, but Says He Isn’t Stepping Down from Committee Chair - for Now (source: CBS News) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
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Rangel Denies Losing Ways and Means Post (source: CBS News)
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President Obama extended a bipartisan olive branch to GOP leaders, stating in a letter that he is willing to consider several of their ideas in a compromise plan. (source: CNN) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
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Obama embraces GOP health care proposals (source: CNN)
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Senators have reached an agreement to end Sen. Jim Bunning’s filibuster of a $10 billion package that extends benefits for unemployed workers.
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Bunning relents, jobless benefits deal reached (source: CNN)
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