grant me a leave of absence. there is nothing in the rules of the house that refers to temporarily stepping aside. either you are the chairman or you are not. well, there is a question about that as house ways and means committee chairman powerful chairman charlie rangel stepped aside temporarily today as ethics committee investigations continue. we re back with the panel. fred, what about this. i suspect he won t be back. this is one of the lesser charges. it s one taking these flights that were paid for down to whatever that conference was. i forget where it was. the more serious charge is the one that he didn t report earnings on his tax returns and pay taxes. now, the ethics committee hasn t gotten that one yet or hasn t ruled on it look, he had been admonished on this one. if he had to step down for this and there are other things, too. his apartments in harlem and so on. there are a variety of things. so, when they are going to come
speaker pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence. there is nothing in the rules of the house that refers to temporarily stepping aside. either you are the chairman or you are not. well, there is a question about that as house ways and means committee chairman powerful chairman charlie rangel stepped aside temporarily today as ethics committee investigations continue. we re back with the panel. fred, what about this. i suspect he won t be back. this is one of the lesser charges. it s one taking these flights that were paid for down to whatever that conference was. i forget where it was. the more serious charge is the one that he didn t report earnings on his tax returns and pay taxes. now, the ethics committee hasn t gotten that one yet or hasn t ruled on it look, he had been admonished on this one. if he had to step down for this and there are other things, too. his apartments in harlem and so on. there are a variety of things.