Question : Pelosi promised in 2006 that her congress would be the most ethical in history, so why is she defending Rangel?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/pelosi-defends-rangel-on-ethics-ruling/

At a Friday news briefing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended Representative Charles Rangel in light of a new ethics panel ruling that admonished him for corporate-financed trips to the Caribbean.

Ms. Pelosi did say she had not read the findings of the House ethics committee, which determined that he violated Congressional gift rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips in 2007 and 2008. But she parsed the ruling a bit differently than the panel itself, saying it didn’t find that he had knowledge of the sponsorships himself. “And I think that’s an important statement they made,” she said.

The ethics report, however, said that while it had no evidence Mr. Rangel personally knew of the sponsors, “Representative Rangel was responsible for the knowledge and actions of his staff and the performance of their official duties.”

The Democratic congressman from New York took issue with the findings on Thursday night.

The ethics panel, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, is still examining more serious dealings involving Mr. Rangel, including campaign finance issues, failure to pay federal taxes on rental income from a Dominican villa and the use of rent-stabilized apartments. (See related article on the findings.)
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Answer by DAR
Because nothing in ‘her congress’ has indicated already that that was a complete lie?