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Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, did not violate House ethics rules when she contacted the Treasury Department in 2008 about a bank matter, a special investigator announced on Friday.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure 20-term Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel after the ethics committee found he violated House rules.

After the House ethics panel's chief counsel backs censure for improper financial and fundraising conduct, N.Y. Dem asks for "a drop of fairness."

A House ethics subcommittee has found longtime Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel guilty on multiple violations of House rules. The subcommittee, according to California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, the ethics committee chairwoman, found "clear and convincing" evidence of guilt on 11 of 12 counts, including failing to pay taxes on a home in the Dominican Republic, misuse of a rent-controlled apartment for political purposes and improper use of government mail service and letterhead.

Charles B. Rangel, facing a host of ethics charges in Washington, was leading in a district in which the Democratic nomination is tantamount to a general election victory.

New York's Democratic political establishment came out in force for embattled US Rep. Charles Rangel on Wednesday, packing a sold-out fundraiser to praise Rangel's service to the city and state over a 40-year career recently tainted by ...

New York Democrat Charles Rangel says he's not resigning, despite 13 charges of ethical wrongdoing. In a rambling floor speech Tuesday, Rangel told colleagues: "I am not going away." The former Ways and Means Committee chairman pleaded ...

A House panel finds 'substantial reason' to believe that the Democrat may have broken rules in her dealings with OneUnited Bank. She vows to fight the charges. A congressional panel set the stage Monday for an ethics trial for Rep. Maxine Waters, one of Los Angeles' most enduring liberal politicians, over her actions involving a bank with ties to her husband that received federal bailout funds.

A second senior Democratic lawmaker may face a public ethics trial this fall, posing a possible setback to the party's efforts to keep control of the House of Representatives in the November elections.