Here’s Rep. Charlie Rangel’s 32-page response to the 13 charges against him that were unveiled at a House ethics committee hearing earlier today.

Eleven different defenses are laid out in the response, about half of which covers the congressman’s solicitation of contributions to benefit the CCNY center that bears his name.

He insists that his efforts did not violate House rules, but admits that in “retrospect” the public would perhaps have been “better served” had he consulted the Standards Committee before he acted.

The congressman also says that if he “mistakenly used the wrong letterhead or other modest resources in this worthy cause, the error was made in good faith.”

Rangel Response to SAV

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