Charles Rangel

The development of climate change legislation will be a priority for the Ways and Means Committee during the 111th Congress.

We think we have enough scientific evidence to move forward on this, the distribution of resources that will have to be collected is a very complex problem.

You have been very, very helpful. I suspect that we have the capabilities as we certainly have the willingness to do this and perhaps that would be your rewards for a lifetime of research that your country has finally responded.

If we do not reinvest into some of the rapid research and development and deployment of the new technologies while we are rolling out the stuff that is already off the shelf, I do not see how you get that without a cap and invest program…

The Chair expects a vote soon. For the witnesses, we will be inconveniencing you because we expect to be on the Floor for several votes, which will take approximately 30 minutes.

I want to thank the Committee Members and our witnesses for joining us on what may not be a historic occasion.

Chairman RANGEL. Thank you so much.

I think we should all agree the primary mechanism we are using here to try and drive investments in alternative energy sources, non-carbon based sources, is by setting the price on carbon, and that will drive investments in these other…

None of the three of you are politicians or economists. You are scientists.

The whole world is watching, not necessarily this Committee, but certainly the direction in which the Congress is going to go.

Let me thank you for the tremendous job that you and the leadership have done during this historic period in our Nation's history. There is a common expression that we have in our committees, and that is, ``How is the gentlelady and…

We are so proud of our staff. We are proud of the way we work together.

I support the committee's budget proposal.

We are proposing a 5 percent increase from 2008. And for 2010, we propose a 5 percent increase from 2009.

there may be a lot of people that have objection to the process in which we have moved forward, but one thing is abundantly clear and that is, the President of the United States, and every economist from the left to the right, believes…

what a great opportunity for us in this august body, whether we are Republican or Democrat, to think in terms of the comfort that we are giving parents and grandparents by having assurances that, if anything happened to these very special…

Well, as Rhett Butler once said in 'Gone With the Wind,' if I'm gone, quite frankly, I don't give a damn.

Mr. Speaker, some time ago, in an effort to make certain that 159 taxpayers who are very wealthy had some tax liability, the Congress at that time passed the alternative minimum tax. What they neglected to do was to index the tax structure…

I wish we weren't legislating this way, as the gentleman has pointed out, on the suspension calendar, but as you know, it's difficult working with the other House. They have our CHAMP bill over there, and there is no telling what we might…

I hope when we start looking at some other issues, and we're looking to see how we're going to jump-start this economy, that we recognize that it won't be the homeless and the hopeless that we'll be going to. They're not even in the…

I just want to make it abundantly clear that what we were fighting for when we were talking about providing resources for those people that have lost their jobs was not a Democratic position or a Republican position, but it was a position…

I think we are all proud that we are able to at least go back home and face the people who are going through this economic crisis. They are sitting around the table. They know America is not going to let them down. They know that they have…

here we are again, once again fighting for the dignity of millions of Americans who worked every day of their adult lives, paid into a trust fund, believing if there ever was a need, that their Congress, their Members would respond to it…

Thank you again, Dr. McDermott, Mr. English, and all of those that I know everybody in this House is sensitive to the plight that these unfortunate, hardworking people find themselves. All I can suggest, from a very political point of…

We come here collectively to endorse the decision that's been made by our fearless leader who comes as a member of the state of New York that makes us so proud.