Rep. Charlie Rangel, the over-tailored New York Democrat, looked his best today at the health care summit, as he called for reform in his capacity as the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. “So what I would hope would happen is that we leave here not thinking that we’re going to start all over,” said Rangel. “This is the last year for a whole lot of people in the House of Representatives who we believe we represent the people, too.”

Presumably Rangel was not referring to his own numbered days in office, but he might have been. TIME’s Jay Newton-Small reports that the House Ethics Committee will release a finding Friday that Rangel violated House rules, the result of an ethics investigation of the Bronx Democrat that has lasted more than a year. (In the last quarter of 2009, Rangel spent more than $574,000 on lawyers fighting the charges, much more than he spent on his own campaign.)