Charles Rangel

I think history would show that a different standard has been used in this case, where I did not curse out the speaker, I have not tried to have sex with minors, I didn't steal any money, I never -- I tried to help City College.

I would soulfully report to this body the loss of a great Member, Congressman Steve Solarz, who just left us. He passed away at the age of 70 years. He served in this body from 1975 to 1992. Republican or Democrat, he loved this country…

There's no excuse for my behavior, and there was no intent for me ever to go beyond what has been given to me as a salary.

And I recognize that you cannot deal with issues that's not before this committee, but what the press has done to me and my community and my family is just totally unfair.

I never attempted to enrich myself, and that I walk away, no matter what your decision, grateful that I have had this opportunity to serve.

Madam Chair, all I'm asking for is the time to get counsel. I have lawyers from Washington, D.C., and New York are willing to give me free counsel to be able to come here, because they don't think I have been treated fairly.

I'm being denied the right to have a lawyer right now, because I don't have the opportunity to have a legal defense fund set up and because I can't afford another million dollars.

I plead guilty of not being sensitive.

Nobody that can read is going to bring any charges against me.

Let me congratulate the chairman and the ranking member of Ways and Means for coming together to have this civil type of discourse, having our staffs work together, agreeing on some things, disagreeing on others, but showing that…

My dear friends and colleagues, I rise to the floor because the newspapers and the media have indicated that there is a concern about some of the Members in this House that I retire or remove myself from this body. And I have always tried…

The ethics committee won't even tell me when I'm going to have a hearing. And, hey, people are concerned about me. I'm 80 years old. I don't want to die before the hearing.

The committee says that Rangel didn't report more than $600,000 on financial disclosure forms, this from the guy overseeing the committee that's supposed to be dealing with taxes.

Despite efforts to forge some sort of deal with the Ethics Committee, Rangel, the powerful 20-term Democrat from New York, may soon face a very public and embarrassing trial in the House of Representatives.

The committee says that Rangel violated House rules by pressuring lobbyists and companies to donate money to build the Rangel Center.

If I struggle hard to find some good news in the statement of alleged violation, I do get small comfort in knowing that there's no allegation, that there's a scintilla bit of evidence that I have been guilty of corruption, wrongdoing…

Thank you, Chairman Levin, for giving me this opportunity, and again to Congressman McDermott for working so hard to try to protect those people who have lost their opportunity to take care of their families because they have lost their…

Longtime New York Congressman Charles Rangel will face a formal ethics committee hearing. Rangel faces allegations of failing to report various forms of income, from rent-controlled apartments in New York to a house in the Dominican…

But, Mr. Speaker, I rise to alert the House that, once again, I have introduced legislation to reinstate the draft and to make it permanent during time of war. It is H.R. 5741. And what this does is to make everyone between the ages of 18…

I think that our great country and its successes is really not just due to investments, but the investments that we have in people who are willing to leave their home country to come to this country because they have hopes, they have…

I want to thank the other side of the aisle. I have never seen anything move so fast, and I am so deeply grateful that this happened. Some of you don't know, but the Korean Government invited John Conyers, Sam Johnson, Howard Coble and me…

And I want you to know this is just the beginning of the United States of America's involvement. In September of this year, in commemoration of the lives that were lost by Koreans and Americans and the other 20 countries that fought…

I really didn't intend to talk, but I just wonder whether my colleague was listening to the same President, a President who I thought was responding to all Americans when he said that the government has a responsibility to make certain…

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I know from time to time when my party asked me to carry too much weight that morally I don't believe I can do it, that somehow there are people on our side of the aisle that take the risk and being able to…

Sometimes when life gets rough for me, I try to put myself in the shoes of the other guy. What a rough time to be in the minority. We have so many people whose hopes and dreams have been shattered, they're out of work, they're angry, the…