Charles Rangel

If I was to share with you where we would get that money would be in closing tax loopholes.

do you believe that we can raise any revenue now and it would help us to close the deficit?

This afternoon sometime, I will reintroduce my bill calling for a mandatory draft, making certain that every young person has an opportunity one way or the other to serve this great nation of ours, whether we're talking about in our…

It's just a patriotic agenda. It's just something that if America has given us the opportunity to get to where we are, and our parents are where they are, it just seems to me that we cannot afford to talk like Democrats and Republicans…

Just on what you were talking about, the tax policy, and knowing that the top 1 percent of the wage earners, or the income people, in this country own 40 percent of the Nation's wealth. The President of the United States has to go to the…

I would have hoped that today we would have taken advantage of the fact that all of us want to get rid of a part of the President's affordable health bill that we believe has not reached the objective that we wanted. Everybody, including…

It would seem to me that now is the time, the campaign is over, to try to improve and correct and get a broad-based consensus as to how we can better serve America in terms of health care.

I think it is good for the Nation to better understand the program that the President has offered us.

These centers are not Democratic centers or Republican centers, they are based on need, aren't they?

Doctors don't make partisanship a part of their career.

Thank you so much for sharing with us the knowledge that you have so that our government can do a better job.

It just amazes me as to the opposition to this revolutionary concept of broad national coverage.

And so--listen. The problem we're facing--there is sharp differences of opinion here.

Well, our job is to say that, one way or the other, the government is going to make certain that it is affordable.

Tell me. Both of you, and certainly the Chamber, advocate repeal of the law that the President signed. Is that correct?

I truly believe we have an obligation to at least give access to health care, one way or the other.

if we were to exclude the credits, the deductions, the exemptions, as Dr. Sullivan referred to, we could have a dramatic decrease in the corporate tax rate.

Thank you so much. I wish when the dust settles and we have an opportunity to sit together with our Republican friends that we can come up with a reform called ``truth in advertising'' as we label these bills. What was a national bill and…

I come to the floor opposing the rule only because there's a provision in it that indicates that our delegates from all over the globe will not be allowed to exercise any of their voting privileges that they had earlier. And when my…

Tonight is going to be a rather historic vote. In the old days, the House would initiate tax bills, and then we would send it to the Senate, and then the Senate and the House would come together and have what was known as a conference. But…

I don't care what color they are. You send someone up here to defend this country or we're pulling out of here. And that's where we find ourselves today. At a time when we're looking for scientists and researchers and teachers and people…

Thank God that the Native Americans didn't have these immigration laws when they were discovered, you know, by other people. But having said that and forgetting the idea of compassion, I'm reminded that in 1950, when the outfit was…

First, let me apologize to this august body for putting you in this very awkward position today. To the Ethics Committee, I do recognize that it is not a job that many of us would want to have. Last week, as we were reading about the North…

I fully recognize that constitutionally this body has the full jurisdiction to determine the conduct of one of its Members. My predecessor suffered because they didn't allow him to be a Member before they decided that he should be…

I have not and never and there's not any evidence that I did anything to enrich myself, that I have done anything corrupt or done anything to sell my office or to sell the Congress, anything that involved intent to deceive or to avoid my…