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
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.
If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.
My father was absolutely no good.
Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.
The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
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.
If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.
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.
We would like to know which of the president's recommendation's he would like to drop, ... We only have $250 billion left, since the president has figured this just right.