Charles Rangel: “I thank you for allowing me this opportunity to participate in the Republican Presidential campaign, because that's…”

“I thank you for allowing me this opportunity to participate in the Republican Presidential campaign, because that's exactly what this is. I saw a commercial with a white guy with leather gloves on working and sweating, and, oh, God. It looked like America to me except they had something in there about President Obama wanting people who didn't want to work, that all they had to do was ask for a welfare check, and I think it had something like ``I paid for this commercial,'' or something like, ``I'm proud of it.'' This is the first time I've seen a standing committee manipulate itself to give credibility to a guy who just really doesn't know what this business is all about. I never thought I'd be in the well talking about States' rights, but I do recognize there are different employment needs of people in Alaska and people in Hawaii, people in New York, people in Mississippi. They just don't all have the same job opportunity. And the whole idea of asking for Governors, Republican and Democrat, to have the flexibility not to fill out forms, but to say, What's working? How are they putting people to work? But I think the most important thing that we're forgetting is that not having a job and facing your family each and every day is more than not having a paycheck; it is not having self-esteem. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”