WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Democrats are pushing for a punishment milder than the censure embattled Rep. Charles Rangel faces on the House floor.
While the 10-term New York Democrat prepares to address the House later Thursday before its censure vote — the first since 1983 — some lawmakers are trying to get a vote first on a reprimand, a more lenient disciplinary action.
Rangel is ready to argue that his financial and fundraising misconduct deserves a reprimand, but not a censure.
A censure would require the 80-year-old congressman to stand before his colleagues while Speaker Nancy Pelosi reads him the censure resolution the House adopted.