The House Ethics Committee just reconvened and will proceed with the hearing on Charlie Rangel, even though Rangel has walked out on the proceedings.

Charlie Rangel’s impromptu press conference after walking out on the House Ethics Committee. Watch.

Rep. Cantor (R-VA) revises his comments about providing a “check” on President Obama.

As Facebook makes its move into the email service market, check out this chart showing the total number of unique visitors to the top email service providers compared to the total number of uniques for Facebook.

Word around DC is that Michael Steele’s close to finished in his efforts to get a second term as RNC Chief. But one RNC member tells TPM news of Steele’s demise is greatly exaggerated.

Jim DeMint says he’s got the votes to ban earmarks in the Senate.

Jim DeMint said he had the votes. And it looks like he does because Mitch McConnell just went on the floor and announced that he’ll support the earmark moratorium. So it looks like he got beat.

It seems like it was just months ago when ‘refudiate’ was a sign of poor command of the English language. Now the American version of the OED has declared Sarah Palin’s word-child not only a word but Word of the Year!

Now that the House Ethics Committee has concluded that there are no material facts in dispute in the Charlie Rangel case, it turns to the issue of whether those facts constitute a violation of the House ethics rules.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) gets new top messaging/policy job for Senate Democrats.