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Rep. Charlie Rangel, (R-N.Y.), discusses why the government has more important things to discuss than the debt ceiling.
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Rangel.
Got mining this I wish I could be in New York with you parents -- -- -- -- -- -- Tens down in Washington are really was looking forward to talk -- which you don't kind of break the equity intentions that we have here.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- As you said congressman Rangel wants to -- on a program the city gonna carry.
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-- -- So let me it was that I was under the program obviously there's an imitated it's pretty -- -- I get let that go Puerto real thing.
Lot on every -- -- By congressman -- by the way.
What may be going to this was a ceremony yesterday and a lot of ceremony at the finals of -- yesterday I talked to -- -- a purple heart and bronze star.
Flooding in the Korean War where -- -- -- ceremony to let us just and I compliment.
Well.
I was that way we -- -- Ways and Means Committee really wrestling with that the budget that's proposed.
To the president and we have a great interest -- but that is senator McConnell is suggesting but.
There is a deep concern -- -- with me with the committee with the congress as to what would happen if we don't fulfill major responsibility.
And that is increase the debt ceiling.
But and wouldn't support potential for that.
Always think when I see the last question second pop artist thank god like whenever there's a labor -- like to dormant go on strike -- there's a baseball whatever.
Are big they all talked -- just down the last second midnight but -- -- make a deal like you've taken aback in my head.
That's that's you know of that that's gonna happen here.
And so my question is isn't gonna happen here we're gonna come up front -- just -- -- second on some like the president on the Republican to make a deal.
I -- -- the back of my head that we could did determine that -- In the past at least seventeen times -- had this type of thing.
But we never had the need the polarization.
Between the bodies as we have today.
And so therefore you'd never know just out eat the other party is dug in on their political commitments.
And so if you don't know that and you never know whether or not we can really reach this crisis.
But what they're really makes me feel more optimistic this morning.
Is that the United States chamber accomplices finally what he did and said no matter what party you belonged to for God's sake.
Get rid of the problem of the debt ceiling the -- Pay they -- -- people that would -- money problem and then get back to the question about entitlements budgets and revenues and that just makes public's sense.
I only wish that our spiritual leaders.
Whether Republican and Democrat would weigh in because on the table now is -- security.
Medicaid for eight -- the it boy this thing.
-- here for the aged so they had so many Worley issues not just political issues that would Dylan went down -- -- -- to.
So unnerved fear of content trying to present a little balls were -- term race sexism just -- in his -- is that.
What you think of so it's very workable solution.
Every economists say that we have to raise revenue -- to a huge revenue instead of taxes and yes we have to really cut -- And get rid of wasteful spending.
But why is the tax issues so important even as you know.
Just talk.
It's because -- talking about at this point in time.
Just raising rates was saying that we have loopholes in the tax code that you could drive a truck through.
Everyone knows that Republicans and Democrats.
If we took away these unnecessary preferences.
We have billions of dollars and that would be raising -- But only.
