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
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.
From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
I am running for re-election no matter who runs.
I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.
I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
My father was absolutely no good.
I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich.
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.