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Well, the evidence so far is that they are neither. Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and his ranking member, Jim McCrery, a conservative Louisiana Republican, have worked out a small package of tax cuts to add to the minimum-wage bill. Rangel has said he has no interest in raising taxes on the middle class. He has cited as his top priority fixing the alternative minimum tax, which he argues unfairly burdens middle-class families. He has also led breakthrough negotiations on free trade with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Trade Representative Susan Schwab that...
...language skills and a knowledge of Muslim culture. As one of his Republican committee members puts it, "He gets it." In the age of Barack Obama's inspiring bid to become the first black candidate to win a major party's presidential nomination, it's time to give Reyes, Rangel, Conyers and the other minority chairs in the Democratic majority Congress the proper respect that Dellums spent two decades to earn...
...Lozada himself. The Bolivia-U.S. extradition treaty allows for an exemption for people accused of "political offenses," and lawyers in Bolivia expect the former president's lawyers to claim such a status for their client. Indeed, a longtime friend of Sanchez de Lozada, Miami-based consultant Beatrice Rangel, alleges that this is simply a case of "President Morales using his power to start political trials against his predecessors without legal grounds...
...helped steer Chavez to the presidency in 1998, has done an about-face since leaving the government in 2002. This week, he described it as a "hypocritical authoritarianism that tries to sell the world certain democratic appearances." Chavez has also recently let go former vice president Jose Vicente Rangel and former foreign minister Ali Rodriguez, who were some of the only figures left in the government with political clout of their...
...said he would back him. At a recent event in Chicago, Jesse Jackson, introducing Obama, said a "new President is in the house," although he has refused to endorse Obama officially so far. Jackson's son, Illinois Rep. Jesse Jr., is already backing Obama. New York Congressman Charlie Rangel, who used to be on Hillary' s bandwagon, is now publicly wavering and encouraged Obama to get into the race...