House Republicans will demand a vote this week on whether Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., should be stripped of his Ways and Means chairmanship -- the first such attempt since the 39-year veteran was admonished by the House ethics committee last week.

Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, intends to offer a resolution on Rangel Tuesday and hopes for a vote by mid-week, spokesman John Stone tells On Politics.

Rangel was admonished by the ethics panel on Thursday for taking trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by private corporations, a violation of the House gift rules. The funding for the trips -- to Antigua in 2007 and St. Maarten in 2008 -- was not initially disclosed by Rangel's office.

Last year, the House took two votes on whether Rangel, who has been at the center of multiple ethics probes, should keep his seat atop the influential tax-writing committee. Democrats coalesced and supported Rangel in both votes.

Republicans, however, have been making an issue of those votes in a number of competitive House races this year. The National Republican Congressional Committee sent press releases to 71 Democratic-controlled districts criticizing lawmakers for voting to support Rangel.

One of those releases, sent to papers in the Upstate New York district of Democratic Rep. Michael Arcuri, argues that the congressman "has already voted twice to sweep his party's corruption problems under the rug by letting Rangel off the hook."

Rangel has said he intends to stay on as chairman.

Though he has been the leading spokesman pushing for Rangel's ouster, Carter came under fire himself last year after failing to report thousand of dollars in profits on his annual financial disclosure form, according to Politico. Stone countered that Carter has since cleared the air by making his tax records public.

(Posted by John Fritze)