Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangelis the U.S. Representative for New York's 13th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second-longest currently serving member of the House of Representatives, serving continuously since 1971. As its most senior member, he is also the Dean of New York's congressional delegation. Rangel was the first African-American Chair of the influential House Ways and Means Committee. He is also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 June 1930
CityNew York City, NY
Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.
Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.
I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
is the best political thing to happen to Freddy all week.
isn't awake enough to know what's going on.
The whole Republican rationale for passing such a big tax cut is that we needed to send the surpluses back to the people. How ironic is it that we are now borrowing from the people in order to pay them their checks?
And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,
Essentially, they've targeted the most vulnerable in our communities -- children, the aged, the blind and disabled -- for spending cuts that pave the way for tax cuts for the rich,
could have been done in a little office somewhere.
I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil,
I worry that we are losing our capacity to feel the pain of this war for which few Americans have been called to sacrifice in any way.
We can only support a tax cut when we know what is going to happen with the rest of the budget,
We have a million people -- a million Americans out there that have worked every day, that have paid into the unemployment compensation package -- and the bad cops are saying, 'forget about it,'