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Rep. Rangel Files Ethics Charges Against Himself Wednesday, July 23, 2008 WASHINGTON — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., filed an ethics complaint against himself Wednesday with the House Ethics Committee. The move is believed to be unprecedented. The Washington Post recently ran articles and an editorial raising questions about Rangel's potential involvement in raising money for an academic center named in his honor at City College of New York.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel is soliciting donations from corporations with business interests before his panel, hoping to raise $30 million for a new academic center that will house his papers when he retires. The New York Democrat has penned letters on congressional stationery and has sought meetings to ask for corporate and foundation contributions for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York, a project that caused controversy last year when he won a $1.9 million congressional earmark to help start it. Republican critics dubbed the project Rangel’s “Monument...

Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, is intent on raising $30 million for a new academic center in his New York district -- a center with his name on it. After securing an earmark and two other federal grants totaling some $2.6 million for the project, the Democratic congressman wrote letters on his congressional stationery to businesses with interests before his committee. They sought meetings to help him fulfill his "personal dream" of seeing the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service completed. ...Until roughly the 1960s, people had to die before a grateful nation memorialized...

Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, says he plans to file an ethics complaint — against himself. The move comes after a Washington Post reporter wrote a story raising questions about the New York Democrat’s efforts to raise money for an academic facility in Harlem that will bear his name. The story suggested that Rangel violated House rules by sending out letters bearing an official congressional letterhead seeking funds for the Rangel Center, to be located at the City College of New York, from Donald Trump and other wealthy individuals. At a press conference...

When he got caught accepting improper VIP mortgages from Countrywide Financial as part of its CEO's effort to keep his firm's Senate Banking Committee skids well lubricated, Sen. Christopher Dodd declared indignantly, "I don't believe I did anything wrong." No doubt he sincerely believes that. He believes he is entitled to cut-rate loans because he's Chris Dodd, born into a political culture where the rules of decent society and the law passed for ordinary Americans do not apply. And after 34 years of full immersion in that warped world, right and wrong are entirely foreign concepts, particularly when incumbency and...

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, called on the House ethics committee to investigate his role in raising funds for the "Rangel Center" at City College in New York. In a combative press conference this morning, Rangel went after the Washington Post for reporting that he was sending out letters on official congressional letterhead soliciting funds for the center from corporations and wealthy individuals with business before his panel. "The review should be done as soon as possible so as to clear up any misunderstandings regarding my efforts to cnnvene meeting to discuss partnerships between...

****It looks like Rep. Charlie Rangel is one of those "do as I say, not as I do" politicians. NAMES REDACTED Manhattan ****It is no wonder that all these politicos try so hard to get into office. Just see how it has benefited Rangel in rent and Chris Dodd in mortgages. It's sickening. Tequesta, Fla. **** If Rangel can't see anything wrong with a wealthy, high-ranking, pretend-friend-to-the-poor representative having four rent-stabilized apartments all to himself, then he is a clueless, phony and out-of-touch knucklehead who is unfit to govern and should resign his Ways and Means Committee Chair immediately. Manhattan

Rep. Charles Rangel said he will give up one of four rent-stabilized apartments that are supposed to be used as primary residences and for which Rangel paid about half of market rate for more than a decade. A moving truck may not be enough to protect Rangel from the legal repercussions of his longtime discount, according to Ken Boehm of the National Legal and Policy Center, which filed an FEC complaint. Rangel's years of low rent constituted an illegal corporate campaign contribution from building owner, the Olnick Organization. Rangel could face investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Rangel is worth...

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel is soliciting donations from corporations with business interests before his panel, hoping to raise $30 million for a new academic center that will house his papers when he retires. ... ...a project that caused controversy last year when he won a $1.9 million congressional earmark to help start it. Republican critics dubbed the project Rangel's "Monument to Me." ... The congressman has corralled more federal money as well, securing two Department of Housing and Urban Development grants totaling $690,500 to help renovate the college-owned Harlem brownstone that will house the center.

Rep. Charles Rangel defiantly defended having four rent-stabilized apartments Friday as Republicans, critics and constituents railed against what they called a sweetheart deal. "I don't see anything unfair about it, and I didn't even know it was a deal," said Rangel, 78, who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and is the dean of the New York congressional delegation. "I did not negotiate or ask for a lower price, and I'm paying the legal rent." That didn't satisfy Connie Kennedy, 52, who has been living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Rangel's luxury doorman building, Lenox Terrace, for more...

Rep. Charles Rangel defiantly defended having four rent-stabilized apartments Friday as Republicans, critics and constituents railed against what they called a sweetheart deal. "I don't see anything unfair about it, and I didn't even know it was a deal," said Rangel, 78, who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and is the dean of the New York congressional delegation. "I did not negotiate or ask for a lower price, and I'm paying the legal rent." [Snip] Nellie Bailey, director of the Harlem Tenants Council, accused Rangel of "the height of hypocrisy." She said he has failed to help...

Getting an apartment in New York City can be an expensive affair — unless the renter is a Congressman apparently. Charles Rangel (D-NY) has four rent-controlled apartments in one building in Harlem, even though rent control should only apply to a primary residence. Rangel uses one of the rent-controlled apartments as a campaign office, which calls into question whether he has broken gift-acceptance and electoral regulations: While aggressive evictions are reducing the number of rent-stabilized apartments in New York, Representative Charles B. Rangel is enjoying four of them, including three adjacent units on the 16th floor overlooking Upper Manhattan in...

Updated, 5 p.m. | Representative Charles B. Rangel held a 20-minute news conference on Friday afternoon after The New York Times reported that he had four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem at a time when the city is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. At one point angry residents accosted the congressman, the dean of Harlem politics, in an unusual sidewalk confrontation, as Mr. Rangel faced questions from reporters. Mr. Rangel, who is the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his living arrangements were fair and legal and that he was paying the maximum rent allowed on all...

Could Charles Rangel be in trouble with the law again? Here he is after being arrested at a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in 2004. * * * * *It's good to be the king, or a powerful congressman. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel (D-New York) has been living high off the hog, the New York Times reports. While ordinary New Yorkers struggle with sky-high rents, the archliberal Democratic lawmaker, the scourge of landlords, has not one, not two, not three, but FOUR rent-controlled apartments in New York City. And apparently his behavior is illegal. An excerpt...

While aggressive evictions are making rent-stabilized apartments increasingly scarce in New York, Representative Charles B. Rangel is enjoying four of them, including three adjacent apartments in a sprawling penthouse overlooking Upper Manhattan, courtesy of one of New York’s premier real estate developers. Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence. Mr. Rangel, who has a net worth of $566,000 to $1.2 million, according to Congressional disclosure...

Re: "swiftboating" From StreetInsider.com, July 3, 2008: "The 'Swiftboating' slogan is used by leftist politicians and members of the old media to smear the Swift Vets and other anti-Kerry veterans as liars. The truth is that they were effective because they supported their charges with evidence. A second goal of this tactic is to preempt any criticism of Sen. Obama and the other Democrats they are trying to elect - however accurate and relevant such criticism may be," said Scott Swett, the primary author of To Set the Record Straight. Source: Authors of New Book on Swift Boat Veterans for...

"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers." Source: The Company He Keeps Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Lefthttp://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA== Allies in War By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001: ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,...

The Talk Shows Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Govs. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Journalists round table. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Bob Casey, D-Pa., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Feinstein; Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S.; Wolfson.

NEW YORK — Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), among Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top African-American supporters, was none too pleased with Clinton’s comments this week to USA Today that she has broader appeal with white voters. The statement was “the dumbest thing she could have said,” Rangel told reporters before a Clinton fundraiser in a midtown hotel ballroom Saturday. He called her statement “very poorly worded” but acknowledged there may be some truth to it. “In any campaign, there are groups of people that you know that you have and groups of people that you don’t,” he said. “And I don’t...

Little-Known But Exploited Loophole Allows Politicians To Drive, Maintain Expensive Cars, SUVs On Taxpayer Money. Rep. Charles Rangel: 'My Constituents Appreciate It'. You may not realize it, but members of the House of Representatives can lease a car and have it paid for by you -- the taxpayer. And it's not just the car, but gas, registration, insurance … the works. And as CBS 2 HD found out, there's no limit on how much they can spend. Congressman Charles Rangel was recently seen getting out of his Cadillac DeVille, which he leases for $774 per month.... Congressman Gregory Meeks was...

MAY DAY 2008 Unity grows among immigrants, Black community and labor By Teresa Gutierrez Published Apr 30, 2008 9:47 PM May Day press conference, April 28, New York City. Third from the left is Teresa Gutierrez. WW photo: Deirdre Griswold April 27—On April 25 when the not guilty verdict against the cop killers of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old African American was announced, immigrant rights activists and many immigrants spontaneously joined the progressive movement in a demonstration in Queens, N.Y., to protest the racist verdict. ... (big snip) "Workers World Party Secretariat members Teresa Gutierrez and Fred Goldstein will deliver papers...

Setting off speculation about his possible VP pick, Barack Obama may have unnerved his MSM cheerleaders. They’d already been dismayed to find that the Chosen One a mite “self righteous” as one Washington Post columnist described him and “arrogant” as a Slate blogger mused. (What was their first clue? I mean aside from the cult-like music videos, Obama girl and his wife’s insistence that he is the only source of pride in America in the last generation?) Last weekend Obama piped up with this when asked about his VP pick: “I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of...

GOP skips Spitzer meeting None of state's 6 Republican members of Congress show up By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press First published: Thursday, December 7, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer met with New York's congressional delegation Wednesday, but noticeably absent were Republicans. None of the six returning GOP members of Congress from New York nor any of their staff attended. Some Republican aides complained of receiving very late notice of the meeting set up by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, and others said they didn't expect anything important to be discussed. "I don't believe there was any type of real intent...

<p>February 16, 2008 -- Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said yesterday.</p>

However, Bush’s vow to veto any tax increases could have ramifications for Democratic leaders who have promised to pay for any new proposals they advance. The speech drew sharp jabs from Democrats. “I thought he had stopped drinking,” House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , D-N.Y., said in response to Bush’s comments on extending tax cuts. “I think there are certain things that the president just has to say, even though he knows that there’s absolutely no chance.”

Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) (L) hugs Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) at a campaign stop at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina January 25, 2008. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Rangel: Only Progress in Iraq Is to 'Get the Hell Out!' By Josiah Ryan CNSNews.com Staff Writer January 18, 2008 On the Spot (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) told Cybercast News Service Thursday that he does not consider legislation passed last Saturday by the Iraqi Parliament, which permits former members of Saddam's Ba'ath Party to reclaim government jobs, a sign of political progress. "The only thing that is progress is to get the hell out of there," said Rangel. (Hear Audio) The legislation, which allows low-ranking Ba'athist Sunnis to participate in the new Shia-controlled government, has been cited by...

<p>Haiti's government, while controlled by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his party, spent $7.3 million between 1997 and 2002 lobbying the U.S. government as more than 80 percent of the country was impoverished.</p> <p>During this time, U.S. funding to Haiti — a typical measure of lobbying success — declined, and its economy foundered, fueling his opposition's successful effort to depose Mr. Aristide last week for the second time in 15 years.</p>

If you forgot to get a Christmas present for Charlie Rangel, don't worry. The congressman picked one out for himself, and he's sending you the bill: $2 million for a shiny new Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College. The New York Democrat's Monument to Me was one of about 9,000 earmarks in the omnibus spending bill Congress approved before going on vacation. Most represented a more subtle form of self-aggrandizement, aimed at maintaining power and prestige by currying favor with voters. According to Citizens Against Government Waste, the total cost of the 11,000 or so earmarks...

Charles Rangel has offered up his prescription for tax reform. He refers to it as “The Mother of All Tax Bills.” He claims that his bill restores tax fairness and makes the wealthy pay “their fair share.” This congressional balloon juice is not only disingenuous, it is also wrong. What Charlie Rangel proposes is the Mother of all unjustified pay cuts. By repealing the tax cuts passed by George W. Bush, Charles Rangel takes thousands of dollars out of the pockets of the average American wage earner. In the State of Virginia, Rangle’s Bill will cost the average family $2,487....

Nov. 12, 2007 (SmartPros) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce expressed its disappointment over the Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007, passed by the House on Friday. The nearly $80 billion bill includes provisions that provide alternative minimum tax relief, and extends a number of tax provisions set to expire this year. The bill is not "tax relief" as advertised in its title, the Chamber said, but a tax shift from individual taxpayers to businesses, putting American jobs and the economy at a disadvantage compared with our growing global competitors. "While the Chamber supports an extension of alternative minimum tax...

WASHINGTON -- Capping a spirited debate, the Democratic-led House voted Friday to shield more than 23 million Americans from a tax hike this year under the alternative minimum tax -- and hit up wealthy managers of private equity firms and hedge funds to make up the difference. The 216-193 vote, which fell largely along party lines, escalated an emerging political war over tax fairness and the proper treatment of an elite class of investment managers who have benefited from the tax cuts of recent years. It sparked angry Republican charges that Democrats were rushing to approve ill-advised tax hikes. For...

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has proposed legislation that would effectively halt some current tax audits of people who get a tax break for living and operating a business in the United States Virgin Islands. Many beneficiaries of the tax break are campaign contributors to the lawmaker, Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, according to data collected by CQ MoneyLine, which tracks political contributions. At least one of them, Richard G. Vento, is currently under audit, according to court filings. Mr. Vento gave $4,400 last year to the Baucus-Rangel Leadership Fund, which supports Mr....

October 29, 2007 -- WHAT does Rep. Charlie Rangel have against his hometown, anyway? Anyone who didn't know better would think the "mother of all tax reforms" unveiled last week by the House Ways & Means chairman from Harlem was designed by rural populists to suck more juice out of the Big Apple. Billed as providing "tax relief" for "hardworking families," the Rangel plan would dull the leading edge of economic growth in the metro New York region - with ripple effects on state and local tax revenues to boot. In the long run, taxpayers at every income level would...

The House's top Democratic tax writer outlined a $1 trillion plan Thursday to eliminate the alternative minimum tax and ease the tax burdens of most people by asking the rich and some companies to pay more. ''We have attempted to restore equity and fairness to the system,'' said Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee... House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio said the ''mother of all tax hikes'' would ''doom our economy'' and put people out of work. The second-ranking House Republican, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, said his party would use the proposal to...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Wondering how Democrats might approach income taxes in this already heated election season?</p> <p>The House tax panel chairman introduced a bill Thursday that would repeal the alternative-minimum tax and substitute the loss of nearly $800 billion over 10 years with a "replacement tax." The new surtax would kick in for couples with incomes more than $200,000 and singles making at least $150,000. (The specific threshold would be set by the Treasury Secretary.) The surtax would be 4% for most people but would rise to 4.6% on incomes of more than $500,000.</p>

The proportion of black Marine Corps recruits jumped by 40 percent over the last 12 months, halting a seven-year slide that has worried service leaders. In fiscal 2007, which ended Sept. 30, blacks were 10.9 percent of Marine recruits, up from 7.8 percent in 2006, the smallest proportion of black recruits for the Corps since the all-volunteer force began 33 years ago. The increase is timely, given a Marine Corps plan to expand its active force by 27,000 over the next five years in response to protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other worldwide commitments. All active services met...

You can't say Charlie Rangel lacks for ambition. The House Ways and Means Chairman has been saying he wants to pass "the mother of all tax reforms," and even that doesn't do justice to the trillion-dollar tax baby he delivered unto Washington yesterday. No one thinks his plan has a chance of becoming law this year, but its beauty is as a signal of Democratic intentions for 2009. In proposing what would be the largest tax increase in history, Mr. Rangel is showing the world what he wants the tax code to look like if Democrats run the entire government....

Taxes: Charles Rangel, chief of the House Ways and Means Committee, wants to pass the largest income-tax hike ever, to punish the rich. That the middle class and poor would lose millions of jobs goes unmentioned. 'We are not raising taxes" the Democrat from Harlem insisted as he unveiled a plan seeking $1 trillion in new federal revenues in a decade. It includes: • A 4% income tax surcharge on adjusted gross income over $200,000 for married couples, rising to 4.6% on incomes above $500,000 — which will hit as the Bush tax cuts expire. • An increase in the...

Senior Democrat proposes U.S. tax overhaul Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:51am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. congressional tax writer proposed sweeping tax legislation on Thursday that would repeal a tax for the rich that has been hitting more middle-class Americans and replace it with a new tax on high-income earners. The $1 trillion bill proposed by Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, would also reduce taxes for millions of middle- and low-income taxpayers. Private equity fund managers who pay a 15 percent capital gains rate on earnings from...

A bill representing the "mother of all tax reforms" is set to be revealed Thursday, according to House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY). But Mother is going to have to be patient. No one expects Congress to deal with a tax overhaul this year - especially one estimated to cost $1 trillion. Still, tax policy experts and political observers do expect Rangel's bill to provide serious fodder for debate in 2008. "This is a view of coming attractions," said Greg Valliere, chief strategist of policy research firm Stanford Washington Research Group. Rangel has promised his bill will "provide...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, a prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton, sharply criticized Republican presidential frontrunner Rudy Giuliani's personal life Monday, highlighting the fact that the former New York City mayor and his wife have each been married three times. "Two people, six spouses. It's a little complicated if you're not religious, especially if you're running against a Mormon," Rangel told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a reference to Giuliani's chief rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. For the record, Romney has only been married once. "I think America has to look at all these things, and there...

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the dean of the New York congressional delegation, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, longtime political booster of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and a member of the steering committee for "Veterans and Military Retirees For Hillary" has joined another co-chair of the Clinton campaign, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, in attacking the personal life of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. In a cover story on Giuliani in this week's New York Observer, Rangel went after Giuliani in unusually personal ways, expressing confidence that Giuliani's frontrunning status will fade either because of the former mayor's...

WASHINGTON -- Meeting reporters at breakfast last week, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson set as his tax priority a "patch" to slow the runaway Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). The former investment banker acted as though he were oblivious to plans by Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, to turn the need for such a temporary tax fix into the most radical left-wing tax revision in half a century. When one questioner asked whether Paulson contemplated recommending a presidential veto of AMT legislation, he indicated astonishment at the very idea. His only stated concern was...

Aug. 12, 2007 The so-called war czar who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has once again raised the issue of whether or not America might consider reinstituting a military draft. "I think it certainly makes sense to consider it," Lt. Gen. Douglas Luke told NPR. "And I can tell you this has always been an option on the table. But, ultimately this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation's security one means or another." Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is a long-time champion of the idea. The chair of the House Ways and Means Committee...

Rep. Rangel Rips Giuliani, Calling Him A 'Bum' U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel isn't holding back in his criticism of presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Friday the Democrat from New York's 15th District criticized New York's former mayor, telling Gabe Pressman that Giuliani shouldn't get New Yorkers' support just because he's from the area. Rangel said, "He was never one of our boys. He was a bum. He was a terrible man. It's the post 9/11, when we couldn't find the president, and he was fearlessly walking up and down the streets. And that's the guy that America has known. But now...

TWO DEMOCRAT HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN TIED TO COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONS!John Conyers chairs the House Judiciary Committee and Charlie Rangel, House Ways and Means!On Oct 5, 2006, Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, *gave a speech* to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization.http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=243 Or, if the long url above breaks up:http://tinyurl.com/ygx9w6Before that he PUBLICLY ENDORSED THE MOVEMENT! See "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include...". (Conyers' endorsement appears immediately after Ward Churchill's)http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2 Or, if the long url above breaks up:http://tinyurl.com/ef6z6FACT! World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a MAOIST- revolutionary...

Excerpt of the TN article, followed by a few comments from myself...Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan leads a march from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, July 23, 2007, to Capitol Hill where her group was to ask the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to begin impeachment proceedings against the Bush administration. Sheehan and about 200 other war protesters began walking from Arlington National Cemetery to the Capitol Hill office of Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment proceedings would begin. Sheehan said she would ask Conyers to initiate impeachment proceedings against...

Rep. Charles Rangel is lining up millions in taxpayer funds and soliciting massive donations from companies with interests before Congress in a controversial bid to finance a center in Harlem named after himself. Rangel, who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, has quietly secured close to $25 million from a slew of private companies and foundations for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College. The center, which will be located in a four-story limestone building at 141st St. and Convent Avenue, will steer low-income and minority students into politics.

Please help me get this information out to the American people. I've been sending it to various conservative media for months and NOT ONE has done anything with it! Confirm for yourselves, copy & paste, then forward to as many media sources as possible. This bum Conyers, who heads the powerful House Judiciary Committee and is out "investigating" the White House, needs to be EXPOSED before the American people as the treasonous RAT that he is! And any congressman, Left or Right, who does NOT immediately call for Conyers' ejection from congress should be held accountable as well. This group...