Sentences with phrase «representatives censure»
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.
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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.
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.
Representative Jerrold Nadler is calling for Assemblyman Vito Lopez to resign his post in the Assembly and as chair of the Brooklyn Democratic organization, in the wake of sexual assault allegations that resulted in Lopez's censure.
After a humiliating censure by Congress four years ago for failing to pay taxes and other ethical lapses, Representative Charles Rangel has steadily lost power in Washington.
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.
He was eventually censured by the House of Representatives.
In the vote to censure, 333 representatives voted for it and 79 representatives voted against.
Every other Queens representative — Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside), Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights), Carolyn Maloney (D - Astoria), Anthony Weiner (D - Forest Hills), Gregory Meeks (D - Jamaica) and Nydia Velazquez (D - Ridgewood)-- voted against censure.
While representatives have been censured in the past for improperly using money, such as former Rep. Charles Wilson, a California Democrat who was censured in 1980 for improperly using campaign funds and accepting funds from an individual with interest in legislation, the report said Rangel deserved censure because of the cumulative nature of the violations.
Rep. Charles Rangel was censured last Thursday after a 333 - 79 vote by the U.S. House of Representatives.
There is a concern that they will be viewed, by some, as a ceiling rather than a floor when it comes to good conduct, and that party representatives who comply with the letter rather than the spirit of the general guidelines will escape censure for otherwise poor conduct.