GOP Leader Tells Rangel to Quit Ways and Means Committee

WNYW: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) heads up the Ways and Means committee one of the most powerful in Washington, it writes the nation’s tax laws.



In a letter to Rangel, House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) tells the Harlem Democrat that “you have an obligation to set the pace when it comes to standards of official conduct. By relinquishing the gavel voluntarily while the ethics panel does its work, you demonstrate your respect for this obligation.”