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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans were heading toward a down-in-the-dumps holiday. Then the House ethics committee handed them a gift. The committee's investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel's tax problems is expanding, turning what has been a minor headache for Democratic leaders into a New Year's migraine. The last thing Democrats need is an ethics cloud hovering over a 20-term House veteran who, as House Ways and Means Committee chairman, will play a critical role in advancing President-elect Barack Obama's goals of an economic recovery plan, middle-class tax relief and expanded health insurance. It was only last month that the top House Democrat, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said she expected a report with the ethics panel's findings by Jan. 3. She was trying to make the problem go away quickly. If Rangel were exonerated right after the new year, Democrats could leave the New York Democrat in place and move on. If he violated standards of conduct, the party could dump him as chairman before the new congressional session got going. But if the investigation lingers, Pelosi and her leadership team can only wait - and listen to Republican calls for Rangel to step down. It didn't help that seven hours before the expanded investigation was announced Tuesday, Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on charges he conspired to sell or trade the Senate seat left vacant by Obama. Before he was governor, Blagojevich was a House member elected to the seat once held by a House Ways and Means chairman who went to prison for corruption - Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill. The Blagojevich investigation also dropped a potential ethics bombshell on Pelosi, when a federal complaint against the governor raised questions about the conduct of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Wiretapped conversations suggest Blagojevich felt that a "Senate Candidate 5" - later identified as Jackson - would raise campaign money for the governor in exchange for being appointed to succeed Obama. Jackson said Wednesday he openly sought appointment to the seat, but denied offering favors in return. The expanded probe will examine whether Rangel helped preserve a lucrative tax break that benefited an oil-drilling company last year, while its chief executive was pledging $1 million to a college center named in the congressman's honor. The ethics committee also is looking at Rangel's use of congressional stationery to ask foundations to support the school project; using four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem apartment building; and not reporting or paying taxes on $75,000 in rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic. Rangel, 78, has asked the committee to investigate his conduct. The lawmaker, first elected in 1970, denied any improprieties. His latest statement this week called the allegations "ridiculous, and frankly, without a basis in fact." "It is unusual for a member to ask for an investigation of himself, but I have nothing to hide and never have," Rangel said. Republicans showed an awareness that they could not hammer Democrats over Rangel's troubles and leave their own ethics problem untouched. Rep. Don Young of Alaska stepped down under pressure as the senior Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, saying he wants to focus on clearing his name in a corruption investigation. Three Republican officials said Young acted after House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio told Young privately he would oppose Young if he sought to retain his post. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday, saying they were not authorized to discuss the events. Before the ethics committee's announcement on Rangel, Republican leaders had little to look forward to this holiday season after getting drubbed in the November elections. Only two years ago, they lost control of the House when Democrats accused the GOP of having a culture of corruption. Last Sunday, two days before the ethics panel acted, Boehner was grasping for anything he could find to brighten the holiday for Republicans. "The future is Cao," he said in celebrating the House victory of Republican Anh "Joseph" Cao in New Orleans. Cao ousted a Democratic congressman but still left the GOP with a whopping deficit for next year: 177 seats to the Democrats' 256 seats, with two races undecided. But Republicans knew the victory said little about the future because Cao defeated Rep. William Jefferson - a nine-term Democrat who stands indicted for allegedly taking bribes from contractors. Until the ethics committee helped out, Boehner's cheerful future depended on beating a congressman whose freezer was found, in 2005, to hold $90,000 in possible bribe money. ---- EDITOR'S NOTE - Larry Margasak has covered Congress for The Associated Press since 1983. © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our .
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