Charles Rangel

Mr. Speaker, few people in the country and a lot of people in the House of Representatives are unaware as to what this procedure is in terms of going to conference. Civics 101 would dictate that the House and Senate conferees are trying to…

I oppose this amendment. It really puts a damper on American entrepreneurship as we try to transfer technology to the least developed countries that we have in the world. Recently, this House passed the African Growth and Opportunity bill…

Our bill stops further scheduled cuts in the IME, freezing the adjustment factor at 6.5 percent rather than letting it fall to 5.5 percent.

The Balanced Budget Act took the position that the extra adjustment we pay a hospital per resident should be reduced from 7.7 percent in FY 1997 to 5.5 percent in FY 2001.

The situation is, as a hospital ER would say, STAT.

We must also correct a technical error in the BBA which capped the amount we pay psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals.

I am today introducing legislation to stop the cuts in Medicare's indirect medical education (IME) program.

IME payments are extra payments made to teaching hospitals for the fact that they are training the next generation of doctors.

These cuts are too much.

These cuts are too much. The nation's teaching hospitals, which do so much to serve the uninsured and poor, and which are the cradle of new clinical research and technical innovation, are hemorrhaging red ink.

I hope this legislation will receive early consideration.

I believe that we must give all public school children a second chance so that they can make a positive contribution to society.

I cannot imagine a better way to honor our teachers on 'Teacher Appreciation Day' than to work toward modernized schools.

I believe that improving our public school system should be our highest priority.

The most important challenge facing this country today is the need to improve our educational system.

Safe schools are a necessity--and a priority.

I am introducing legislation, entitled the Public School Modernization Act of 1999, which consists of two education tax incentives.

Mr. Speaker, I am glad to join my chairman in this bipartisan legislation to show support for our American soldiers, our sailors, our airmen and marines involved in this Allied Force operation in the Kosovo area with this much needed tax…

I think there will be more political opportunities for me in the House, but having said that, the gentleman from Ohio did not say that he was just going to reserve the money for Social Security and Medicare. He said that he was going to…

there was a time when people used to run around asking for $800 billion tax cuts, and some got closer to a trillion, there was whispering of people meeting in the middle of the night in Michigan asking for 10 percent across the board, and…

I came to the floor really to thank the gentleman from Ohio. The closer we get to the presidential election, the more common sense really reaches this body.

as my colleagues know, it is one thing to say they are going to put it in the reserve and reduce the Federal debt, and that is good. But I think what we are trying to do here is to get some type of commitment in saying that if we can delay…

I rise in support of H.R. 975. I agree with the gentleman from Texas (Chairman Archer) that there are problems with this bill. The administration has pointed that out. I myself would prefer that we be considering legislation today that is…

I am today introducing legislation to give equitable treatment to the Nation's safety-net hospitals

In the old partisan days, I would say this resolution is good because Santa Clause is coming through. But recognize that we have not had too many legislative accomplishments. Being very anxious to display some degree of bipartisanship, let…