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Representative Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., made his case for a universal draft—with no exemptions for college students—to a packed house of students and media at the ARCO forum last night...
...quitters support groups, offer “nicotine replacement” gums or patches, and in some cases provide prescription medicines to end the addiction. Those with low incomes have no such luxuries; with this tax they will have even less money for their families. As Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) has said about cigarette taxes, “All you’re really doing is making life harder for the little...
...laid-off workers. And conservatives went into revolt when Hastert nearly signed on to the idea of making 20,000 airport security workers federal employees. "Both Gephardt and Hastert are catching hell from their caucuses, and it's not going to get any better," says Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel, who faults the "so-called leaders" with compromising principle in the interest of speed...
...York shuttle can as much as go to the bathroom, thanks to a new "no leaving your seat in the first or last half-hour of a trip or the plane will be diverted to the nearest airport" rule. Frequent flyer New York Rep. Charlie Rangel counseled understandably antsy people on his flight last week to hold tight or they?d be touching down in Dulles, 25 miles from Washington and three miles, by mobile-lounge, from the taxi-stand. "I've had it with people-movers," grumbled the Harlem congressman, who, like the rest of Washington, has been relegated...
...Bill Clinton opened up shop in Harlem, and gave a speech so buoyant and well-received it seemed like the first salvo in a grass-roots campaign to repeal the 22nd Amendment. When the once-and-perhaps-future President finished speaking, he locked arms with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang along to the tune that might have been his theme song for a turbulent quarter-century in politics: "Stand By Me." The song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour one December...