Sentences with phrase «house for ethics violations»

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The only Speaker of the House that ever had to pay $ 300,000 for an investigation in reference to his ethics violations and you think he should be President?

The only Speaker of the House ever removed from that position for ethics violations.

may be under fire for potential ethics violations, but that hasn't kept him from risking further alienating the White House.

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.

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

A House investigative committee is charging Rangel with ethics violations, stemming from a nearly two - year investigation into his finances, his failure to report rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic, his use of multiple rent - stabilized apartments, and his efforts to fundraise for a City College center named after him.

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.

Sources with knowledge of Rangel's plans also said the 80 - year - old New York Democrat will ask the House ethics committee, which found him guilty of 11 ethics violations Nov. 16, for permission to speak to the full House before any sanction is carried out.

In 2010, amid an inquiry into possible House ethics violations, Rangel held a similar birthday fund - raiser which was attended by Andrew Cuomo, who was campaigning for governor at the time.

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

Rangel stood silently in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she formally reprimanded him for his ethics violations.

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.

MANHATTAN — Rep. Charles Rangel is resorting to a colorful chart in a last - ditch effort to convince colleagues in the House to reduce his punishment for ethics violations.

Rangel also offered explanations for the ethics charges against him, characterizing them as mistakes and acknowledging violations of House rules but denying they amounted to corruption.

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.

New York Rep. Charlie Rangel's alleged ethics violations are causing problems for House Democrats heading into the fall.

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

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According to sources, the White House political block — a direct violation of numerous ethics regulations and possibly of federal laws — was instituted over the objections of scientists at the FDA, but with the awareness of HHS Secretary Sibelius, her senior adviser Andrea Palm and the Office of Science and Technology Policy and its director John Holdren, who is responsible for enforcing «science integrity» across government agencies...