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That's why Charlie Rangel might be looking for a shovel these days. The flurries started last summer as a series of embarrassing revelations. Among them was the fact that Rangel was occupying four rent-controlled apartments simultaneously in upper Manhattan and that his tax returns - Rangel is the chairman of the tax-code-writing House Ways and Means Committee - were such a mess that he was hiring a "forensic auditor" to figure out why he had failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic. Adding to the tangle of questions...
...that might be written off as small lapses or even just sloppiness. But any snickering stopped last week, when the New York Times reported that Rangel had been "instrumental" in preserving a lucrative tax loophole that benefited an oil-drilling company whose chief executive had pledged $1 million to a school of public service named for Rangel at City College of New York (CCNY). Now the doubts surrounding Rangel have grown to the point that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is worried they will linger past Barack Obama's inauguration and into the dawn of the new Democratic era. She issued...
...Waxman. Few jobs in Congress are as powerful; the committee has one of the largest swaths of jurisdiction, encompassing energy, health-care and environmental issues. Waxman's elevation upends one of the most revered principles on Capitol Hill: the seniority system. "It's just been buried," says Representative Charlie Rangel of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. (See 10 Questions with Henry Waxman...
...zone. Kicker Patrick Long missed the extra point wide left.Both teams proved unable to build any further momentum, and the ensuing exchange of punts resulted in Columbia taking advantage of a start at the Crimson 39-yard line. Runs by quarterback M.A. Olawale and tailback Ray Rangel set up a 23-yard reception by Zack Kourouma for a touchdown.An extra point later, the home team was down 7-6. Harvard responded immediately.On the first play of the ensuing drive, Pizzotti avoided pressure and found sophomore Chris Lorditch streaking up the middle. Lorditch outran everybody for the 76-yard touchdown...
...Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they'd start speaking Spanish.' CHARLIE RANGEL, New York Representative, on his failure to pay taxes on a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic...