The Hill reports on this latest development:

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday followed through on his promise to file an ethics complaint against himself, but he also offered a vigorous defense of his effort to solicit support for a New York City educational center bearing his name.

The powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman acknowledged in a letter to the House ethics committee that he sent out more than 100 letters, using congressional letterhead, that asked leaders of charitable foundations, companies and business leaders to support the City College of New York (CCNY).

A top Rangel aide hand-delivered a four-page letter with a five-page addendum to the ethics panel late Wednesday morning. In it, the lawmaker asked the panel to determine whether he had “inadvertently failed to comply with the House Ethics Rules regarding the use of congressional letterhead.”