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Charles Bernard Rangel (/ ˈ r æ ŋ ɡ əl /, RANG-gəl; [1] born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York City from 1971 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party , he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House of Representatives at the time of his retirement, having ...
Rangel would later sponsor four bills to mandate national service. His proposal would have required all men and women between 18 and 25 to work for two years, either in the military or in a ...
Republicans won't have U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) to kick around any more -- or at least, not as effectively. Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, sent a ...
The Rangel endorsement builds on momentum Adams gained through another recent vote of support, which came last week from the Hotel Trades Council of New York, a union that represents more than ...
Rangel also argued that bringing back the draft would remedy the social disparity of the burden of military service falling disproportionately on the poor and the minorities. [2] After the Democratic victories in the November 2007 congressional elections, Rangel repeated his call for re-introduction of the draft and for moving forward on the ...
The Universal National Service Act of 2006 introduced February 14, 2006. New York Democratic Representative Charles Rangel again called for the draft to be reinstated. It required men and women 18–42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for "other purposes".
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) must feel like Superman. Despite an ongoing ethics probe, the Ways and Means Committee chairman has managed to fend off three votes to have him removed from his ...
The "Gang of Four", (clockwise, from top left) David Dinkins, Basil Paterson, Percy Sutton and Charles Rangel The Gang of Four , also known as the Harlem Clubhouse , was an African-American political coalition from Harlem whose members later ascended to top political posts.