Rangel Continues to Enjoy Support from Pelosi Despite Ethics Investigation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hunkered down behind her most powerful chairman, Charles Rangel, amid new revelations about his failure to report millions of dollars in assets, income and business transactions.

She says she is waiting for the House Ethics Committee to complete its wide-ranging investigation of the Ways and Means Committee boss.

But Republicans are not waiting.

“She can’t bring herself to do what she knows is right,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Post yesterday.

Read more: (Charles Hurt, “Pelosi Stands by Her Beleaguered Man,” New York Post, 9/04/09)