“Mercy” he pleads...he’s not a crook....just special.
So it’ll be as expected ... a slap on the wrist.
Somebody please tell me what the consequences of censure is to Charlie.
Probably the best we can hope for, I doubt anyone seriously expects them to kick the old bastidge out...
Just expel him. I am sure his constituents would probably vote to send him back.
Did he give back those rent controlled apartments yet?????
Sorry Chollie. Forty years you have been living high off us, working citizens. Get off the stage and give up all your perqs. Consider it fairness and mercy you aren't in an orange jumpsuit in a federal prison.
He deserves expulsion from Congress, plus prosecution for his crimes.
Isn’t this the same guy who said Charlie was just a little misunderstood?
Tom Delay, Trent Lott Tom Foley ever single other republican was fired or encouraged to RESIGN Rangel needs to be removed from every committee he is on and receive a cut in pay to 10K.
Censure is BS. If the censure continues he should more restrictions on his activities and so forth. In the real world he would be terminated and forced to pay everything back.
Oh no! Not a censure! I heard this on the local radio news break and the reader used his most dramatic voice for the word “censure” and then went on to say Rangel pleaded for “fairness and mercy”
For me the ONLY appropriate punishment is expulsion from the House.
Censure means absolutely nothing.
Congress “policing their own” is like your state’s “Lawyer’s Board of Professional Responsibility “ policing their own....it ain’t happenin’.
anything other than expulsion is a slap on the wrist.
Let’s get real.
“Censure”, “rebuke”, and all those other fancy words are just words for “we aren’t really doing anything to this guy.”
“Oh No — Please don’t throw me into the briar patch”
Government UNIONS are a political disease.. the tail wagging the dog..
Federal government officials should NOT be getting Rich as parasites..
Federal Officials becoming lobbyists should be a felony..
Federal Officials becoming foreign lobbyists should be treason..
From WIKIPEDIA:
Censure is a procedure for publicly reprimanding a public official for inappropriate behavior. When the president is censured, it serves merely as a condemnation and has no direct effect on the validity of presidency, nor are there any other particular legal consequences. Unlike impeachment, censure has no basis in the Constitution or in the rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. It derives from the formal condemnation of either congressional body of their own members.
[edit] Explanation and use
The motion to censure is an exception to the general rule that “a motion must not use language that reflects on a member’s conduct or character, or is discourteous, unnecessarily harsh, or not allowed in debate.”[4] Demeter’s Manual notes, “It is a reprimand, aimed at reformation of the person and prevention of further offending acts.”[2] While there are many possible grounds for censuring members of an organization, such as embezzlement, divulging the secret password, absenteeism, drunkenness, and so on, DEM notes that the grounds for censuring a presiding officer are more limited:[5]
“ Serious grounds for censure against presiding officers (presidents, chairmen, etc.) are, in general: arrogation or assumption by the presiding officer of dictatorial powers – powers not conferred upon him by law – by which he harasses, embarrasses and humiliates members; or, specifically: (1) he refuses to recognize members entitled to the floor; (2) he refuses to accept and to put canonical motions to vote; (3) he refuses to entertain appropriate appeals from his decision; (4) he ignores proper points of order; (5) he disobeys the bylaws and the rules of order; (6) he disobeys the assembly’s will and substitutes his own; (7) he denies to members the proper exercise of their constitutional or parliamentary rights. ”
More serious disciplinary procedures may involve fine, suspension, or expulsion. In some cases, the assembly may declare the chair vacant and elect a new chair; or a motion can be made to rescind the election of an officer.[6]
For examples specific to the United States, see Censure in the United States.
[edit] Procedure
If the motion is made to censure the presiding officer, then he must relinquish the chair to the vice-president until the motion is disposed of;[7] but during this time, the vice-president is still referred to as “Mr. Vice President” in debate, since a censure is merely a warning and not a proceeding that removes the president from the chair.[8] An officer being censured is not referred to by name in the motion, but simply as “the president,” “the treasurer,” etc.
After a motion to censure is passed, the chair (or the vice-president, if the presiding officer is being censured) addresses the censured member by name. He may say something to the effect of, “Brother F, you have been censured by vote of the assembly. A censure indicates the assembly’s resentment of your conduct at meetings. A censure is a warning. It is the warning voice of suspension or expulsion. Please take due notice thereof and govern yourself accordingly.” Or, if the chair is being censured, the vice-president may say, “Mr. Mean, you have been censured by the assembly for the reasons contained in the resolution. I now return to you the presidingship.”[
Pelosi is going to clean up the swamp!!! When?
What’s next the “Comfy Chair”?
If the American people really want to turn this country around and bring it back to what our fathers knew, then we have to get rid of people like Rangle. There’s no other way at this point. If we can’t do this, it tells me that others are in control of our country, not the American people and our politicians are under someone elses control. The question is .....who and what can be done about it?