“Instead of holding Chairman Rangel (pictured) accountable for his actions, House Democrats are ... demonstrating their loyalty to a leader who faces serious questions about his official conduct.”

- Representative John Boehner, in a statement regarding a failed vote by the House to have Representative Charles Rangel step down from his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee before the House Ethics Committee concludes its investigation into a series of Rangel’s financial problems

 

“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”

- Henry Clay, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, the opening statement from the 2008 House Ethics Manual