On the recordDecember 2, 2010
I have great respect for the committee. Nobody wants your job. I came here 14 years ago, and looking back on years that have gone by, I met Charlie Rangel as a colleague here, and then I learned sometime after that we were fellow veterans and fellow soldiers. I realized that he had served with honor and distinction. One year ago last December, I led a codel and we flew to Korea. And reflecting back on my time as a student, a teacher in the Command and General Staff College, and read a lot of that history, the conflict that I served in, as many of you, I thought of Charlie. And he was valorous and did his job. Charlie's erred. We know that. I'm not going to repeat those things. He's erred.
