RSSDemocrat Rep Charles Rangel and Congressional Black Caucus Trips to Caribbean Broken House Rules
As if NY Democratic US Representative was not in enough ethics trouble lately, it appears that his trip to the Caribbean along with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus went against House rules. The rules that may have been violated were two-year-old ethics rule passed after Democrats regained the House. I guess this is more political “Inside the Beltway”, do as I say, not as I do.
This year’s trip took place Nov. 6 to 9, the weekend after the election, on the sun-swept 10-acre Sonesta Maho Beach Resort in St. Martin. The ethics committee approved the Caribbean trip, as it has done for several years, but new information uncovered about its corporate funding raises questions about whether the trip violates a two-year-old ethics rule passed after Democrats regained the House.
The New York Carib News Foundation, a nonprofit affiliated with a newspaper geared toward the city’s Caribbean community, is listed on members’ travel disclosure documents as the trip’s sponsor.
When the nonprofit’s CEO, Karl Rodney, sought ethics committee approval for the trip, as the new rules require, he checked a box on the form certifying that the foundation “has not accepted from any other source funds earmarked directly or indirectly to finance any aspect of the trip.”
After House Democrats regained the majority on a campaign of draining the Washington swamp, they passed tougher new rules governing privately funded trips for members. The ethics rules bar corporations or other entities that employ or retain a registered lobbyist from paying for multi-day trips, either directly or indirectly.
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“Draining the Washington Swamp” is such a perfect analogy!
Unfortunately the very things that are clogging that drain
are the fat cats that claim they are the plumbers. What is
sorely needed is Informed Voter Drano!
How Right, Knight!
LOL!
Kudos…
One wonders what kind of inducements might have been spread around Congress by Aruba back in 2005, when there was at least talk about endorsing a boycott movement ….
Apparently the well-being of Americans is the last thing our ‘representatives’ think about. Business as usual triumphed….
a perfect fit on barry’s team ! at least he has the criminal credentials.
WOW! No wonder this country is going broke. The dems are robbing us blind.