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Rangel's replacement: Pete Stark
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| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 03, 2010 03:27pm |
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| Author | Jonathan Allen |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 3, 2010 04:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | California Rep. Pete Stark — a controversial lawmaker who has a history of volatile comments about Republicans — is now chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, automatically moving up from the second slot after New York Democrat Charles Rangel relinquished his gavel Wednesday morning.
It would take an affirmative action of the House to remove Stark and replace him with another member of the Ways and Means Committee, according to aides familiar with House operations.
Stark — one of the chamber's most liberal, partisan and pugnacious members — has had his own recent run-in with the ethics committee, exhibiting bizarre behavior during an investigation that ultimately cleared him of wrongdoing.
POLITICO reported earlier this week that officials found Stark "extremely belligerent" toward investigators from the Office of Congressional Ethics and used a semi-hidden video camera to tape his interview during a probe of whether he improperly applied for a homestead tax exemption in Maryland even though his official residence is in California.
The incident is just one in a series of stranger-than-fiction episodes featuring the tart-tongued Stark.
He once accused a former Republican Ways and Means colleague, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, of getting her information from "pillow talk," and called another, Scott McInnis of Colorado, a "fruitcake."
In 2007, he accused Republicans of sending soldiers to Iraq "to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
Passing over Stark, a 37-year veteran of the House, could have created a series of new headaches for House Speaker — and fellow Californian — Nancy Pelosi. |
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