Posts Tagged ‘Jon Ward’
Rangel Gives Up Gavel Wednesday – But He's in Denial
Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel will step down as Ways and Mean Committee Chairman on Wednesday. Sources say that Michigan Democratic Congressman Sander Levin will take over the committee temporarily. Rangel denies that he's stepping down. Some details still need to be ironed out, but sources said Rangel has been pushed to step down before the House voted on a bill to forcefully strip him of the coveted chairmanship. Rangel has been under fire ever since an ethics committee released a report Thursday that found that he violated House rules by accepting two corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. via Rangel Giving Up the Gavel | NBC New York. Update : Charlie Rangel Refuses to Quit Charlie Rangel emerged from a closed-door meeting in Nancy Pelosi’s office Tuesday night to [...]
What no bipartisanship? Reid Kills Jobs bill White House endorsed
It only took a couple of hours for the White House to endorse the new, bipartisan stimulus plan launched by Sens. Max Baucus and Charles Grassley yesterday — and a few minutes after for Harry Reid to kill it. The move angered Democrats in both the Obama administration and on Capitol Hill as Reid sent conflicting signals, surprised his colleagues, and might have touched off a leadership crisis if Reid wasn’t already destined to lose in November: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday over concerns it could be used to batter Democratic incumbents, according to Senate sources. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Sen. [...]
