July 30th is the 46th Anniversary of Signing Medicare Into LawMedicare is one of the proudest achievements of the Democratic Party. On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law – traveling to Independence, Missouri, to sign it...
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Representative Charles B. Rangel
Representing the 15th Congressional District of New York
Recently in Legislative Update
by Congressman Charles RangelAmericans have looked to our manufacturing sector as a source of pride and the job-creating engine of our economy for generations. While American manufacturing has been struggling for quite some time, my Democratic colleagues and I believe...
Throughout this Congress, Democrats have fought for small businesses and job creation. Critical to our economic prosperity, small businesses employ over half of all private sector employees and have created 64% of net new jobs over the past 15 years....
On the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Today marks the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War , often dubbed the “Forgotten War”. As a Korean War veteran, I can tell you the war was anything but...
If you would like to receive legislative updates and video like the one below, please sign up for my Rangel Reports here. Thanks to the efforts of the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress, the national economy is showing slow...
The House of Representatives today unanimously passed H.R. 4462, legislation that would allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Haiti to claim an itemized charitable deduction on their 2009 tax return instead of having to...
If you would like to receive legislative updates and video like the one below, please sign up for our Rangel Reports here.I have great news to share with you. The House passed an extension of unemployment insurance and COBRA health...
During the Internet boom of the 1990s and early this decade, technology drove a whole new realm of communications, creating jobs for us and economic security. As we move toward a clean energy economy, technology is going to unleash millions...
The U.S. House will vote tomorrow on a measure honoring the 6.8 million Americans who served in the Korean War by adding Korean War Armistice Day (July 27) to the list of days on which the American flag is displayed...