44 Archive: Ethics
Tavis Smiley: Obama must do more to live up to King's ideals
President Obama might have a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office, but PBS commentator Tavis Smiley said what the president does in terms of policy is far more important than honoring the slain civil rights leader in the White House.
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Hamil R. Harris
| January 13, 2011; 2:41 PM ET |
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Rep. Stark in line to succeed Rangel as committee chair
The man in line to succeed Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is a 78-year-old Californian with his own recent ethics battles, a representative who has a history of calling his Republican colleagues "wimps" and "whores", and who has missed more than 250 roll-call votes while battling an illness he has not publicly disclosed.
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Paul Kane
| March 3, 2010; 2:34 PM ET |
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Rangel: I'm staying as Ways and Means chairman
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) sounded defiant Tuesday night in the face of renewed calls for him to give up his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. He emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to tell reporters that he's staying as chairman. "You bet your life," he said.
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Perry Bacon Jr.
| March 2, 2010; 6:43 PM ET |
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Newer House Dems under pressure on Rangel
House Democrats elected in 2006 and 2008 are under more pressure than many of their colleagues to side with Republicans as the GOP seeks to strip Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) of his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee.
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Perry Bacon Jr.
| March 2, 2010; 3:52 PM ET |
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White House releases more visitor logs
The White House released visitor logs Wednesday.
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Garance Franke-Ruta
| November 25, 2009; 11:56 AM ET |
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Improper computer use by park official not germane to probe, Interior IG says
By Kimberly Kindy A public report from a year-long investigation of the superintendent of Gettyburg...
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Eric Rich
| October 24, 2009; 11:31 PM ET |
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Ground Candidates, Post Editor , July 31, 2007
