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FoxNews: Ethics Panel Says 'Sorry, Charlie, No Deal'
Fox News ^ | Published July 29, 2010

Posted on 07/29/2010 2:22:06 PM PDT by topher

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Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking member on the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, said Rangel was given an opportunity to settle charges during the investigative process, and that time has passed.

"Let me be clear that Mr. Rangel under these rules was given opportunities to negotiate a settlement during the investigation. Let me be clear that I did not participate in any attempts to cut a back room deal behind closed doors," McCaul said at the start of a hearing on possible corruption charges.

McCaul said it's not lost on any member of the panel that the approval rating of Congress is at an all time low, and requires the probe, which has involved 28,000 pages of documents and 60 meetings as well as one deposition from Rangel, be fair and open.

Committee Chairwoman [Democrat] Zoe Lofgren added that the "task is to determine whether Rangel violated that trust."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: barackhole; barackpimp; barackpower; boxer; bunkingwithbubba; congress; cunningham; dodd; ethics; feinstein; frank; immunity; kennedy; mccaul; pardonemoi; rangel; schumer; scofflaw; singsing; slammer; taxcheat; thief; timeinabottle; traficant
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It sounds like the Republicans balked at a deal, and had the balls to be firm in their stand!
1 posted on 07/29/2010 2:22:12 PM PDT by topher
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2 posted on 07/29/2010 2:24:41 PM PDT by jessduntno (Each day, I await a fresh insult to America by this usurper...he never fails to deliver.)
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To: topher
Please note the 'R' after Rep. Michael McCaul's name, R-Texas, in the article...
3 posted on 07/29/2010 2:24:58 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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I am not sure if this could be classified as breaking but it gives more information on this breaking event.

Other Breaking News do not have much facts in the article...

4 posted on 07/29/2010 2:26:52 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: topher

Sorry Charlie.

5 posted on 07/29/2010 2:27:22 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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We need to send Rep McCaul a set of TruckNutz.
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It’s about time someone with an R next to his name sacked up and did the right thing!!!


6 posted on 07/29/2010 2:27:33 PM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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No.

Don’t let this guy go.


7 posted on 07/29/2010 2:30:16 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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I guess the deal didn’t include frog marches, orange jump suits and tin cups for drinking.

Then again, I’m sure Charlie could “Wrangle” (pun intended) a term in one of the Country Club prisons, like the other “Beautiful People” do when they get caught.


8 posted on 07/29/2010 2:30:37 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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Zoe Lofgren - another Dem left wing nut case. I’ll bet she is really PO’d at the Republicans for standing firm on this one. Let’s see how they try to drag out this Rangel mess in an attempt to keep his corrupt way under cover until after the election.


9 posted on 07/29/2010 2:33:19 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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So does this mean he has to have his day in court? Does this mean he has to go through with the public airing of all the charges?

Will this happen between now and election day?


10 posted on 07/29/2010 2:33:42 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: topher

Good news!


11 posted on 07/29/2010 2:33:54 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

LOL, perfect!


12 posted on 07/29/2010 2:34:03 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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Isn’t there something odd about the phrase ‘cutting a deal with The Ethics Panel’?


13 posted on 07/29/2010 2:34:39 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five business worries of the Amercan Farmer for the past 50 years)
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Well, now that you mention it, yes ;)


14 posted on 07/29/2010 2:37:03 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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You mean the dems are forced into doing something the way it is supposed to be done?

They must be furious.


15 posted on 07/29/2010 2:37:06 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
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The ethics panel refusal to resolve the wrangle with Rangel is merely all about racism, fear of a politically powerful black man. [sarc]


16 posted on 07/29/2010 2:39:59 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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The ethics panel refusal to resolve the wrangle with Rangel is merely all about racism, fear of a politically powerful black man. [/sarc]


17 posted on 07/29/2010 2:40:13 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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To: topher

Watch him feign sickness now.


18 posted on 07/29/2010 2:40:18 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: topher

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38466499/ns/politics-capitol_hill/?ocid=MSNToolbar130


19 posted on 07/29/2010 2:40:21 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: topher
Time for Rangel to whip this out on the Ethics Panel........


20 posted on 07/29/2010 2:40:46 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Just like a pond, in politics, the scum always rises to the top.)
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