Charles Rangel

I think this hearing gives us an opportunity to see what we can agree on, and how we can use this to bring us together.

I hear Chairman Johnson talk about our moral responsibility, and I am certain that other people on his side of the aisle will be talking about the Federal Government's obligation to do something for people who work hard every day.

I have no further requests for time. I reserve the balance of my time.

I concur with the objectives of this bill. I advocate a ``yes'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I concur with the gentleman from Texas. My dear friend Mike Kelly and Congressman Ron Kind have worked together in trying to get more information for the Congress from our congressional districts to see exactly what the enrollments are in…

I join with the gentleman from Texas in supporting H.R. 2570. Representative Diane Black and Representative Earl Blumenauer have worked hard on this issue. This legislation will allow the Secretary of HHS to conduct a demonstration, giving…

I conclude by saying that, when issues are serious enough for us to draft other people's kids, when they are serious enough for us to say that we are not going to borrow money from Communist China to pay for these wars, then I can be…

Reclaiming my time, I am glad to hear that. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), and I thank him publicly for the great work that he has put into this issue, as well as all the important issues.

It is my understanding that the TAA complex pay-for has been taken care of under your leadership under the bill that is before us. My question was: Why in the world would you tie that up with TPA? When you accomplish one problem, it seems…

I want to take this time to thank the chairman for changing the pay- for for the TAA. I just wondered, after that very difficult and complex negotiation, why in the world they would tie that up with TPA. That means that those votes now, it…

After 45 years in the House, I would be less than honest to say that there is certain legislation that I have concern with in terms of what happens after I leave this Congress, but I am so pleased to say that the gentlewoman from…

If you are crippled, if you are blind, if you are disabled, if you want help, and if money and insurance is what is keeping you from getting it, you cannot give a better political home run ball to the American people to decide a basic…

It seems like compassion should override partisanship.

It should pain us as human beings if a person goes to a doctor and finds out that the child has an illness but he can't get insurance.

I just thought that the right thing for Americans to do was to believe that health care was a part of the pursuit of happiness.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for not drinking all of that Kool-Aid that you had in the back against ObamaCare.

My dear friends, the good people of Staten Island and Brooklyn of the great city and State of New York have sent to us a man to represent the Empire State of New York, the open door for immigrants who have come here historically from all…

I hope with the tax system that we all depend on, whether we like the bills that we have or not, whether we should reform or not, that we can have some meetings, some luncheon meetings and work with them.

But, please, before you push that, if you are pushing it, let's have a discussion.

I come from a community that knows tax collectors. And they are the most mercenary, insensitive people in the world.

I said: 'You must be kidding me.'

I am glad that the earned income tax credit has come up because there are so many things that we give them.

Let me first thank the chairman because so many of the issues that we raised today, it appears as though we are being critical of the IRS.

I will have to tell this to my teachers and the sick people who are on health care that the American dream, as he says as a businessman, is to do more and to get less benefits from it.

I always learn from Congressman Kelly on the floor as well as here.