(2008-09-10) — Presidential candidate Barack Obama has come to the aid of his Democrat colleague, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, by proposing a bill that would fund Spanish language training for members of Congress, and thus ensure they wouldn’t wind up owing thousands of dollars in back taxes on condo investments in the Dominican Republic.
Rep. Rangel, [...]

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(2007-10-25) — With the deadline looming to fix or repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) before it pinches an additional 19 million Americans, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-NY, today had planned to introduce what he called “the mother of all reforms” to the U.S. tax code.
However, this morning he learned that [...]

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