THE HILL: Rangel probe hastens need to appoint ethics chairman. “It’s always difficult to find members willing to serve on the panel, whose sole purpose is to police its peers. It’s even more difficult because Rangel, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and one of the most powerful and well-liked Democrats in Congress, is the one under the microscope. The House ethics committee ended the 110th Congress without releasing its report on Rangel even though Pelosi had said she expected it to do so.”