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...That's the puzzle," said U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), a delegate and a staunch liberal. "Left, center, right-any time there's so much diversity, ther's a lot of balancing...
...Rangel, who represents poverty-stricken Harlem, was one of 93 Democratic congressional representatives who opposed the welfare reform bill, which cuts $60 billion in funding and requires recipients to find employment within two years...
...welfare and work, but you're not going to help her with childcare, or job training, and she doesn't have the education to get a job. We're going to have children on the street, going without food, education, medicine, vaccinations." New York Congressman Charles Rangel expects the cycle of despair among the poor to grow worse. "There are no jobs. This Administration is going to work hard to create jobs for these people, but the jobs won't be there in time for all these impoverished families whose benefits are going to end. I deal with these teenage...
...through a nation already coping--or more precisely, failing to cope--with the renewed divisions triggered by the Simpson verdict. And they added to the dilemma of black leaders who for weeks have been wrestling with the decision of whether to march. Representatives Gary Franks of Connecticut and Charles Rangel of New York, along with the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P., announced that they could not join Farrakhan no matter how laudable the event's goals, while some women's organizations raised objections to Farrakhan's exclusion of females. Said former Black Panther Angela Davis: "No march, movement or agenda that...
...Korean people, I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the memory of those young Americans who sacrificed their lives onKorea's battlefront," he said. Some 27 members of Congress are Korean War veterans. The South Korean leader singled out New York Democrat Charles Rangel by name. Pledging to pursue Korean unification, Kim noted that vigorous Asia-Pacific economic growth could only be maintained by a "long-term" U.S. military presence in Asia. The South Korean leader is in Washington to help dedicate the Korean War Veterans Memorial and to attend talks on Korean peninsula tensions...