City Room: Live Blog: The Rangel Censure Hearing

Representative Charles B. Rangel?s moment of final parliamentary judgment has arrived: His House colleagues voted against a lesser punishment than censure for a host of ethics violations Mr. Rangel was found to have committed.

The defeated measure would have reduced the proposed punishment from censure to reprimand. But the House has yet to vote on the censure measure itself.

Last month, the House ethics committee found that Mr. Rangel, 80, a 21-term Democrat from Harlem, brought dishonor upon the House by failing to report or pay taxes on rental income from a Dominican villa, improperly soliciting charitable donations and running a campaign office out of a rent-controlled apartment meant for residential use.

If the House accepts the committee?s recommendation to censure Mr. Rangel, he will be summoned to stand in the well of the House and formally rebuked by the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Mr. Rangel has lobbied colleagues for the lesser penalty of reprimand.

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