The Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee is also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and on the occasion of the CBC’s Annual Legislative Conference he discusses some of the challenges facing African Americans and how he overcame them as a high school dropout from Harlem who went on to earn the Bronze Star in Korea and a law degree from St. John’s University.

 

Rangel is also a consistent and vocal critic of the Iraq war. In this conversation, he makes clear the benefits of getting out far outweigh the risks to Iraqis of worsening violence after an American withdrawal.

 

And with half a year until tax season, the chairman of the committee in charge of tax policy predicts passage of a bill to correct the Alternative Minimum Tax, a 1969 law intended to close a loophole for the rich, which now impacts millions of Americans, many of them middleclass.