Charles Rangel

Because a part of trade is freedom, democracy, and that is really more than any one thing what makes Brazil our friend.

whatever you can do for the veterans, whatever anyone can do to help those people who put their lives at stake

it is a cancer inside the agency, and it has to be routed out from the bottom up.

I want to close, Dr. Eastman, by saying that when it comes to political support, most people know I am a Democrat to the marrow of my bones

We are here to improve the quality of life in our country and to be a beacon for democracy for the entire world.

we have found a cancer someplace in Cincinnati, and we have to find out what caused this

This screams out for tax reform, does it not?

The outrage should still be there. Is that not correct?

What I am trying to say, this outrage is not Democrat and Republican, it involves the credibility of government as relates to American citizens.

I think all of us came to this august body with the mandate that we should try to improve the quality of life for our constituents and, therefore, the United States, the people that made our country so great. Education, health care, jobs…

Is it your professional opinion that the question of educating everybody generally to have them to be more of a consumer around the world and especially in the United States is not the proper subject for a trade agreement?

This sounds like a revolutionary advancement that we can make to improve the trading commerce with the EU and, therefore, around the globe.

Any reduction in foreign trade barriers has the potential to strengthen our economy, and in that sense, this agreement is no different.

I think this is the way we have got to sell this project to the world: It is for everybody.

Well, poverty is included in this as well; education is included.

I see that, and I don't know whether anyone disagrees with me, that you find yourselves very comfortable in talking about who should be allowed to come into our country based on the skills that they have.

I heard the last speaker, but there is no question in my mind that when a person from the other side said that the Republican Party's first priority is not the salvation of our country but to stop Barack Obama, I didn't take him too…

So what names go into the hat? Communist China goes into the hat. Iran and Venezuela go into the hat. Saudi Arabia goes into the hat. Russia goes into the hat. Who's outside the hat? Disabled veterans are out of the hat, and health…

We have to find what you have said, which is clear, that if you are going to close loopholes or bring equity to the system, somebody is going to get hurt.

Thank you so much, again, for your patience and for sharing your views with us.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling these hearings.

It's just that, you know, every time we talk about closing loopholes we get support from the Republicans until we try to do it.

So basically what you are saying is that, politically, we would not be closing the so-called loopholes in order to raise the type of revenue that would be necessary to lower the top rates.

Forty attempts or 39 attempts have been made by the Republican Party just to repeal it.

And it is essential that you are going to have a positive support from the United States Congress to do this?