Charles Rangel

I think the Republicans should be lauded for attempting at least to pick up the pieces of what has to be a concern to all Americans, and that is inadequate health care for most of our citizens, especially those people who are working and…

I hate to say this is a political piece of legislation for fear of offending my friends, so please look into the Federal Election Commission, and ignore all of these campaign contributions that are pouring in here to Members that have…

Mr. Speaker, there is no need to debate this bill. I do not see where there is any need to debate what is going on here when the whole world knows exactly what it is. This has nothing to do with protecting the full faith and credit of the…

I wanted to make it abundantly clear that as he extends this debt limit, as he gives us the ability for the United States to pay off its obligations, that he is only doing it for the old people on Social Security, he says, he says. So it…

I am going to try desperately hard to be nonpartisan in my remarks, because I think we have reached that point as a Congress that the general public is just fed up with all of us and are not taking the time to determine whether it is the…

Dear gentlewoman, you have well described our Barbara Jordan and in doing so you described our Constitution and our great Republic.

let me thank the Republicans for their candor in how they intend to resolve some of the problems. I wish the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations was on this floor because now I fully understand, having been born and raised and…

I say to my colleagues, congratulations, your contract obviously is going through. I never thought I would see the day when I would look and the other body would be trying to clean up this garbage that we are sending over there. But God is…

I do not think my country and this administration is doing all that it can. It makes a feeble effort to ask for $152.4 million and the gentleman, in his judgment, says, ``I do not like the program so I will give them $100 million, because…

my friends and colleagues, it is more difficult to get more partisan than I am as a Democrat. But there comes a time when our Nation is facing a serious problem that it just shatters the walls of party labels. I do not know when it…

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. No one in the House has more respect for him. He consistently characterized my statement as having nothing to do with this bill. Now, I know that he knows a lot about a lot of subjects, but when…

if the gentleman's thinking is that putting the money in Africa has a greater effect than what is happening in our districts, then once again, I differ with his thinking.

I oppose the Goss amendment. I have all the respect in the world for the gentleman, and certainly believe that his ideas as it relates to this solution should always be made available to the President. However, I rise because I think it is…

my colleagues, if you really want to understand what deficit reduction is all about, then what you should do is take a look at the amount of money that we are spending to keep people in jail, which reaches $40 billion. Think about the cost…

I thank the gentleman for bringing up this resolution and also reminding Members of this House of Representatives of the pain and the suffering of so many Jewish people in Germany that occurred because no one spoke out when people said…

Today, a voter can no longer depend on the party label to determine the philosophy of the party’s candidate.

In New York City, the Democratic Party has traditionally represented a symbol of hope that one day the benefits promised in our constitution would be extended to include the poor, the persecuted and the denied.

I believe that a united party is far less important than a united city—because if our cities are torn apart then, indeed, what is there to hope for?