Charles Rangel: “I will be a minority for a long time but not in this House. I joined the gentleman in supporting the rule because he was…”

“I will be a minority for a long time but not in this House. I joined the gentleman in supporting the rule because he was fair enough to allow us to do the right thing in the substitute, but one of the arguments against our bill is that it provides no relief because we say Social Security, Medicare and paying down the national debt. I do not know why the gentleman's people do not want to do that first, but they will be given an opportunity to do all four of them and take care of the marriage penalty.”