Charles Rangel

Thank you. The answer to this problem is three things: jobs, jobs, and more jobs.

Oh, yes, I didn't understand you had made that request. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from New York has again expired.

My colleagues, yesterday I was talking about the American Dream. But then again, I was thinking about how many people woke up this morning concerned about our national debt. When you represent the type of district that I do, and many other…

I think I share the embarrassment of all of the Members of this great legislative body when it appears as though in our hands we have the ability to tell people, our creditors all over the country and the world, that for the first time in…

Because if the tax burden is what I am talking about with the sick, the poor, and the lesser among us----

I think abolishing the IRS is not a clever idea, and not something I support.

But I just want to take this opportunity to thank Governor Huckabee.

Good morning, my colleagues. Like most of you, I have taken so many things around this wonderful Capitol for granted. And this beautiful statement, ``In God We Trust,'' unfortunately for me has been one of them. It has not really struck me…

A previous speaker referred to our distinguished Speaker pro tem with that historic name and was suggesting that we look for something to guide us that would be over the podium. What I see is ``In God We Trust,'' not the Congress, not the…

And my colleagues, as we go home to our districts, I am certain that no constituents have said they wake up in the morning wondering about what we're going to do with the debt ceiling. In my district, most wonder how they're going to get a…

My colleagues, as we have the opportunity to debate whether or not our brave young men and women are fighting in wars in foreign lands that have not been approved by the Congress, as we talk in terms of trillions of dollars as to the…

And my colleagues, last week, I tried to point out that there was a serious meeting going on in the White House last weekend between the President and our congressional leaders to point out that we were facing a serious crisis and that we…

I think that is a very useful opportunity.

Having said that, there is a big elephant in this room, and it is called debt ceiling.

But really, as a professional that has worked with the Internal Revenue and served presidents in the past, do you see a connection between the two, except politics, which is not really why you are here?

My colleagues, once again I come before this House to ask you to reconsider establishing the draft. I know some of you think politically this doesn't make sense. But after listening to the President last night, the only people that I saw…

Let me thank Mr. Kucinich, and I support his efforts over the years, but especially today, in allowing this very sensitive constitutional question to be debated. I asked him and almost pleaded that he allow me to follow my friend Dan…

Somebody has got to pay to make this revenue neutral, right? Right. Somebody who is getting unfair tax breaks is going to lose them, right? Right.

Everyone is seeing from the same page, and it sounds like the American thing to do, paying this equity, lower taxes, eliminate unfair preferences, competition, job creation, give the corporations a break, and they will do the right thing…

There are liberals and conservatives, Republicans, Democrats agreeing with you; we should do it, and we should do it fast.

I ask that the gentleman from New York, Peter King, join with me at this time. It is a great honor for us at this time to present to you a young lady who did it the hard way. She's earned it. She's here with her husband, Bill, her mother…

I present to you Congresswoman Kathleen Courtney Hochul. The SPEAKER. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized.

I think those of us who are Members of Congress or within the Beltway understand that this is a political thing that's going on at one of the most serious financial times that our Nation is facing. I only wonder whether or not our friends…

I am recorded as having voted ``yes'' on H.R. 1216; it should have been a ``no.'' ____________________

Would anybody consider just the corporate rates and not figure what the individual tax rates would be?