VIDEO: Rangel’s Future Clouded by Ethics Issues

An NBC Nightly News report last evening highlighted the mounting ethics problems facing Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and the increasing pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after she and all but two House Democrats voted last week to keep him as chairman of the powerful tax-writing committee even though he is under investigation for not paying his taxes. The report says Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sticking with Rangel, but there is some nervousness among House Democrats who worry about how all this may play with the public. All this has Americans asking, what more has to happen before Speaker Pelosi does the right thing?

Read more: (Lisa Myers, “Ethics Issues Cloud Rep. Rangel’s Future,” NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/14/09)