Charles Rangel

No, Mr. Chairman. I am anxious to hear from the witnesses.

I am trying to connect you with hedge fund providers. That is what I am trying to do.

It pains me to have struggled so long for expansion of health care to find people that would be anxious to repeal it and not to have a plan to suggest how the vacuum will be filled.

Okay. We welcome the Mexican jobs coming back to the United States. We appreciate it.

Let me thank the gentlewoman for making this possible, Colonel Bill Webb, of the Korean Memorial Foundation, and, of course, my buddies and colleagues, Congressmen Johnson and Conyers. Why this is so important to me is not for those who…

I am always encouraged when there is words like 'bipartisanship.'

It would seem to me that we ought to get together, as Members of the Committee, and decide what it is that we would want to do without the hearings.

I am saying these multinational corporations are leaving our jurisdiction and avoiding tax liability so they don't pay the 35 percent. Isn't that true?

I do hope that there would be informal discussions as to how we can help our country out and avoid people saying that, under this President, nothing meaningful will be done.

It is so painful that we can't find some common ground as we end the Obama Administration.

I don't see a partisan issue here.

Puerto Rico's health care system has been far below the national in terms of the access to quality health care.

They are crippled now, and all I want to know is in terms of fiscal relief, I mean, what you talk about is equity and fairness that we should have had.

it is my understanding that some 26 of the major Fortune 500 corporations pay no taxes at all

it is hard to find Republicans willing to put their names on anything, no matter how much of a distortion of the Tax Code it is

compromise and working things out is the only way to get something done

Let me thank the gentleman for his statement in pointing out that this is not really a legislative issue. This is a Republican partisan issue where people have waited for years for this moment to destroy a bill to put 22 million people out…

I am almost embarrassed to get up here and discuss this legislation and believe that its sponsors really think that it is going to become law. That is what the reputation of the Congress is supposed to be all about. But even when it is…

I thank the gentleman. I close by saying, everybody here knows this will never become law. It is a political statement. As a politician, there is nothing wrong with political statements. But to have one that is so wrapped up with hypocrisy…

Can you tell the people in Boston that some day you won't have an Irish congressman?

I don't know how proud we can be as legislators to say, at the end of the year, instead of legislating-- having hearings, listening to what this is going to do to help America, and where it is going to hurt--we are so proud of the fact…

I would like to join with the millions of Americans that feel heart-based sympathy for the loss of our friends in Europe and France, particularly Paris, and, of course, to give sympathy to those people that are absolutely hysterical on…

Thank you so much for the courtesy, Mr. Chairman.

Well, I am not only going to miss Speaker John Boehner, but I am going to miss when I leave next year the Congress that John Boehner and I have loved so much. If Republicans think that they had a problem with John Boehner, they should have…

I think this bill before us shows what is wrong with the Congress. I don't challenge the corrections that people on the Republican side would want to make in providing health care for our Nation. It is a problem when none of them actually…