NY pols take fat $hare of the pork
New York Post - 1day 15hrs agoWASHINGTON -- New York City's congressional delegation sure knows how to bring home the bacon. They slipped at least 200 pet projects worth more than $100 million into the pork-laden $1.1 Trillion 2011 spending bill, a Post analysis of the Legi…
Read more >>Blake Chisam, House ethics staff director, to step down
Politico - 1day 23hrs agoBlake Chisam, the staff director and chief counsel for the House Ethics Committee, has resigned from his post and could leave as early as this week, said House insiders. Chisam, who had been widely expected to leave the committee at the end of t…
Read more >>Rep. Charles Rangel may be embarking on his final term in House of Representatives
New York Daily News - 5 days ago
WASHINGTON - Charlie Rangel beat the post-censure blues last week by reveling in upcoming combat with the new crop of Republicans in what could be a two-year last hurrah. "At my age, I have to think about it," Rangel said of chances he will call…
Read more >>Not the Upper East Side!
Balloon Juice - 7th Dec 2010Apparently, Obama has lost Katrina van den Heuvel. I’m sure Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is next… And before you concern troll me, and claim she makes legitimate points, any alleged Democrat who goes on to the pages of Fred Hiatt…
Read more >>Political Forecast: Bush tax cuts' legacy; campaign debt; and the Rangel fallout
Washington Post - 6th Dec 2010
Political forecast "We knew that, politically, once you get it into law, it becomes almost impossible to remove it. That's not a bad legacy. The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tel…
Read more >>WH Outlines GOP Tax Cut Deal
ABC News - 6th Dec 2010one year Payroll Tax reduction for employees -- from 12.4% to 10.4% ($120 billion worth). This is instead of the “Making Work Pay” Tax Credit in the stimulus bill - an administration officials says this will “will ha…
Read more >>Charlie Rangel: Censure was 'embarrassing and painful experience'
Washington Post - 5th Dec 2010
In his first national television interview since being censured by the House last week, New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel acknowledged that he made some missteps throughout his 40-year career in Congress but maintained that he did not deserv…
Read more >>Charlie Rangel On the Politics of Censure, And What He Was Thinking in the Well
The New York Observer - 5th Dec 2010
This morning, Congressman Charlie Rangel sat for his first extended interview since he was censured on the House floor on Thursday afternoon. "It was an embarrassing and painful experience," Rangel told Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union.…
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