Rangel Tangle; Friends and Foes on Ethics Panel

The members of the House panel investigating Rep. Charles Rangel’s possible ethical lapses are no strangers to the embattled Harlem pol.

Rangel, a 19-term Democrat, has crossed paths with all four members of the special subcommittee of the House Ethics Committee that is probing four possible breaches of ethical rules.

He partied with the chairman of the subcommittee, Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), at Tony Bennett’s 80th-birthday gala.

But the two have also butted heads over tax policy. Green, from Houston, opposed Rangel’s attempt as chairman of the powerful tax-code-writing Ways and Means Committee to further tax oil companies.

Read more: (Daphne Retter and Chuck Bennett, “Rangel Tangle; Friends and Foes on Ethics Panel,” New York Post, 9/26/08)