{"id":367848,"date":"2010-02-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1393"},"modified":"2010-02-26T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T14:58:18","slug":"charlie-rangel-admonished-timothy-walz-joins-pac-club-and-more-in-capital-eye-opener-february-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367848","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Rangel Admonished, Timothy Walz Joins PAC Club and more in Capital Eye Opener: February 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CHARLES RANGEL ADMONISHED BY ETHICS COMMITTEE:<\/b> Rep. Charles Rangel<\/a> (D-N.Y.) broke U.S. House rules by accepting corporation-funded trips to the Caribbean, a congressional ethics committee ruled Thursday, according to multiple<\/a> media<\/a> reports<\/a>. Such a finding could force Rangel, chairman of the power House Ways and Means Committee<\/a>, to at least vacate that post. (Rangel, now in his 20th term, remains mum on whether he’ll step down from his chairman’s post.) One of the sponsors of a gathering to which Rangel traveled was Citigroup<\/a> — a banking giant whose employees and political action committee, when taken together, represent his most generous campaign donor<\/a> during the past two decades. Conversely, Rangel ranks among the top all-time congressional and presidential beneficiaries<\/a> of Citigroup’s political donations. Rangel maintains that he did not knowingly commit wrongdoings. While the ethics panel disagreed, the panel, in a separate matter, did dismiss accusations that several other federal lawmakers<\/a> engaged in unethical conduct. They include Reps. Marcy Kaptur<\/a> (D-Ohio), Norman Dicks<\/a> (D-Wash.), Peter Visclosky<\/a> (D-Ind.), C.W. Young<\/a> (R-Fla.) and the late John Murtha<\/a> (D-Penn.).<\/div>\n
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PACS TO RENEW AMERICAN DREAM?<\/b> Capital Eye<\/i>‘s Michael Beckel reports this morning that sophomore Rep. Timothy Walz<\/a> (D-Minn.) became the latest member of Congress to establish a leadership PAC<\/a>, according to paperwork<\/a> recently filed with the Federal Election commission. This new political action committee is named Renewing the American Dream PAC. The group’s assistant treasurer told Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> that the PAC would rely on individual contributions and that Walz would not host fund-raisers for it. Money raised via this PAC, the official said, would benefit federal candidates with “common sense voices who believe in solving problems.” According to the same release of information from the FEC, fellow Minnesotan, sophomore Rep. Michele Bachmann<\/a> (R-Minn.), also recently created a new political action committee. Her “Minnesota – Bachmann Victory Fund<\/a>” is not a leadership PAC, but rather, a joint fund-raising committee, which will dole out cash to her campaign committee as well as the Republican Party of Minnesota — a sign, perhaps, that state officials view Bachmann’s rising national profile as a good way to attract cash.   <\/div>\n
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CRP, IN THE NEWS:<\/b> When the nation hasn’t been focused on bipartisan health care summits, jobs bills, the Winter Olympics … it’s been all Toyota. And from print to satellite, we’ve been in the press explaining the deep connection between the embattled automaker and the federal government that’s now investigating Toyota safety defects linked to multiple deaths. Read, listen and watch to CRP staffers here: the New York Times<\/a><\/i>, the Washington Post<\/a><\/i>, National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm Show<\/a>, public radio’s The Takeaway<\/a>, Al Jazeera English<\/a> and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s The World Today<\/a>. Other appearances this week (not available online) include CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and CNN International.<\/div>\n
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Have a news tip or link to pass along? We want to hear from you! E-mail us at press@crp.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: CHARLES RANGEL ADMONISHED BY ETHICS COMMITTEE: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) broke U.S. House rules by accepting corporation-funded trips to the Caribbean, a congressional ethics committee ruled Thursday, according to multiple media reports. Such a finding could force Rangel, chairman of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}