Sentences with phrase «house censure»

Hobbled by back problems and a House censure, Rangel defeated Espaillat by just 2.5 percentage points in 2012, but appeared to relish a re-match with Espaillat in 2014, when he campaigned aggressively and won by 5 percentage points.

Rangel, who remains angry over his 2010 House censure for ethics violations, makes only an indirect reference to the scandal.

That's because the New York Democrat's previous battles have been plentiful and perilous: ethics violations, House censure, and a 1,086 - vote margin in last cycle's primary.

But some of his clout in Congress waned after 2010, when the full House censured him for ethics violations.

Not exact matches

You prefer the candidate whose own fellow members of the House lacked loyalty and voted to censure their boss.

However, members might wish to tread carefully when bringing such resolutions before the House, because in 1869 Rep. Edward Holbrook was censured for «unparliamentary language for stating in debate that another Member made false assertions».

Speaking on the floor of the House just prior to the vote, King said he plans to vote against censure.

Rangel was later censured by the House for financial misconduct in December 2010 — just months after he won both the September primary and the November general election.

In December 2010, he stood in the well of the House of Representatives for censure; he was found to have failed to pay income taxes and misused his office to solicit fundraising.

The stain of scandal lingers three - and - a-half years after he was humiliated with censure in the House of Representatives.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday endorsed a call to censure President Donald Trump for his response to last weekend's violent white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

In the final vote that followed on censure, fewer Democrats sided with Rangel, and the House approved the penalty on a vote of 333 - 79.

The New York Democrat, who was formally censured by the House earlier this month, is soliciting donations to pay lawyers who represented him during the congressional ethics investigation, and the fund could be used to fend off future legal challenges.

The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.) for his repeated violations of the chamber's rules, marking the first time in nearly 30 years that a Member has been censured on the floor.

The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct voted Nov. 18 to recommend censure, a lecture on the House floor that is the chamber's most stringent form of punishment short of expulsion.

Here's the supporting documentation Rep. Charlie Rangel's team is preparing in hopes of convincing his House colleagues to reduce his punishment for being found guilty on 11 ethics charges from censure, as was recommended by a 10 - person bipartisan committee, to reprimand.

Rangel's spokesman said the congressman has not yet been told when the full House will vote on the committee's censure recommendation, which came before the week - long Thanksgiving break.

The House Ethics Committee voted 9 - 1 to censure Rep. Charles Rangel, and recommended that he pay restitution for unpaid taxes.

In 2010, they endorsed Joyce Johnson, a Seagram's exec with limited political experience, but they couldn't then endorse Charlie Rangel, whose use of rent - stabilized apartments for campaign purposes — a story that the Times uncovered — led to the longtime pol's censure in the House.

As a result of the censure, Lopez has been barred from employing anyone under the age of 21, stripped of his chairmanship for the Committee on Housing, and forced to forfeit «any rights or privileges of seniority.»

After a distinguished career, he embarrassed himself by failing to pay taxes and committing other ethics violations, which resulted in a rare censure from the House.

Earlier, Silver censured Lopez and stripped him of his Housing Committee chairmanship and perks.

Rangel, 87, claims he gave a legal personal loan of $ 100,000 to his campaign in June 2014 when he was fighting to overturn his 2010 censure by the House of Representatives and facing a tough primary challenge against fellow Harlem Democrat Adriano Espaillat.

2010 brought his resignation as Ways and Means Chair and censure by the full House.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling Rangel to the well to be censured right at this very moment.

In 2010, Rangel was censured by his House colleagues for a raft of ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.

In 2010, Obama said he hoped that Rangel, a decorated Korean War veteran, would retire «with dignity» as the embattled congressman was fending off ethics charges that later led to a humiliating censure by the House.

Lopez, once a highly regarded Democratic party leader in Brooklyn and head of the chamber's coveted housing committee, had been censured by the Assembly the year before, after he was accused of sexually harassing two women who worked in his district office.

For proof of that, look no further than the last major Democratic House scandal — the censure of Rep. Charlie Rangel.

He lived through a prolonged ethics investigation that resulted in his censure on the House floor, and nevertheless managed to win re-election in a multi-candidate primary last fall.

He chaired the powerful tax - writing committee, ways and means, until a House of Representatives censure following an ethics scandal stripped him of his chairmanship and clout.

Clinton returned the favor — strongly backing Rangel's re-election in 2010 when the incumbent was under fire for House ethics - rules violations that later led to a congressional censure.

Rangel, 83, a Korean War veteran and dean of the New York congressional delegation, has struggled since being found guilty of House ethics violations and censured by the chamber in 2010.

Five days later on October 23, after the House voted down a censure resolution against Stark sponsored by Minority Leader John Boehner, he said:

The only democrat who rushed to Weiner's defense was Congressman Charles Rangel, who was censured by the House last year.

He remains popular among Democratic Party leaders, even after he was removed as chairman of a powerful House committee chairmanshipand even after he suffered a humiliating censure from his colleagues for failing to pay taxes on income from overseas properties and other ethical lapses.

And lastly, Rangel still faces fallout from the ethics woes that led to his 2010 censure by the House.

Rangel reached out to his supporters in an email on Wednesday apologizing for his actions, but calling the penalty excessive and asking supporters to call House Members and urge them to oppose the censure resolution.

Despite getting the support of the Queens congressional delegation, the U.S. House voted 333 to 79 last Thursday to censure U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D - Astoria) for improperly soliciting donations, improperly using a rent - stabilized apartment and tax evasion.

Harlem's legendary Rep. Charles Rangel was censured by the House of Representatives for a series of ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental revenue from a home he owned in the Dominican Republic.

(CNN)- Iconic Rep. Charlie Rangel is fighting for the Democratic nomination in a newly redrawn New York district, after an over four - decade long congressional career that made him one of the most high profile lawmakers and almost culminated after he was censured on the House floor in 2010.

He was eventually censured by the House of Representatives.

* The lead counsel for the House ethics committee is recommending a penalty of censure for Rep. Charles Rangel (D - N.Y.), who was convicted this week of breaking 11 congressional rules.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

Rep. Charles Rangel was censured last Thursday after a 333 - 79 vote by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Censure does not bring any legal consequences, but is a form of public shaming by the House, and the first action below expulsion.

In the past censure has been used against House members for supporting the confederacy, involvement in the Credit Mobilier of America scandal in the late 1800s and having sex with House pages.

Lopez's alleged physical and verbal harassment of young female staffers - accusations of which he insists he's innocent - have already gotten him censured and cost him both his Assembly Housing Committee chairmanship and post as Brooklyn Democratic leader.

The commitment the ensemble brings to prayer at the Kupermans» house or the gusto in the clerics» singing «If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,» make the shunning of Ronit and the censure of Esti register more sadistically.