TPM: NBC News reporting Charlie Rangel Gives Up His Gavel

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Report: Charlie Rangel Gives Up His Gavel

Evan McMorris-Santoro
March 2, 2010, 8:08PM

It seems last week's admonishment of Rep. Charlie Rangel was the scandal that broke the New York Democrat's teflon coating. NBC news is reporting that Rangel has given up his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee this evening before his fellow Representatives had a chance to take it away from him.

Sources told NBC that Rangel "had been encouraged to step aside" by Democrats "before the House voted on a bill to strip him of his chairmanship."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/charlie-rangel-gives-up-his-gavel.php?ref=fpblg

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1. honorable move...

would be a shame to lose him if the charges are false. god knows the GOP/Drudge machine has been pushing the hype on all of this.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Yay...that's one problem avoided

[KingFlorez]

3. That was the right thing to do

Had he been a Republican, he would have refused to step aside and claimed he was being treated unfairly.

[Cha]

5. And, Whined relentlessy all over corporatemediawhoredom.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. AP story now says he's denying this. ????

[Arkana]

6. And now Pete Stark is the head of Ways and Means, I believe.

[loudsue]

7. Ok. I missed the good part. What scandal was he involved in?

And why in the hell would any Dem in congress not have the good sense to stay clean after what they've seen in the past few years?

[IndianaGreen]

8. This is truly sad end to an otherwise illustrious career

Charlie Rangel has been a champion of the common folk, but you can't do what he is alleged to have done.