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charles rangel is taking 2.6 million dollars of taxpayer money to help build an academic center named after his favorite hero, charles rangel. rangel is not the only one creating “vanity earmarks” nor is it just people from rangels party. there is for example the c.w. young center in behalf of bio-defense and emerging infectious disease was dedicated at the public institutes of health in bethesda, md., form year named after republican congressman cw young. senator byrd has his name on 36 disparate thing on his state, and in most of the cases there is something that seems wrong all round the entire process, its one hang-up named after the retired or the dead ad if congressman rangel would talk either of those two options, i would be proud to name something after him, but until that there is sleazy about the entire transform…congress’s edifice complex by john financejuly 19, 2008; page a9
Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, is intent on raising $30 million for a new academic center in his New York district — a center with his name on it. After securing an earmark and two other federal grants totaling some $2.6 million for the project, the Democratic congressman wrote letters on his congressional stationery to businesses with interests before his committee. They sought meetings to help him fulfill his “personal dream” of seeing the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service completed.
The House Ethics Committee will examine the legality of Mr. Rangel’s requests, but the bigger question is why Congress hands out money to name buildings, bridges — everything under the sun — after its own living members. Until roughly the 1960s, people had to die before a grateful nation memorialized them in granite. The Lincoln Memorial wasn’t dedicated until a full half century after the Great Emancipator’s death. Ditto for Franklin Roosevelt. George Washington had to wait 89 years for his memorial.
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now it seems almost every committee chairman gets some “monument to me” named after himself with the tab going to the taxpayer. there’s a navigation keep out in pennsylvania named after rep. c.w. “bill” young, the preceding gop authority of the house appropriations board. he represents st. petersburg, fla. — his only connection to pennsylvania is that he happened to be born there. nor is that mr. young’s just monument. the c.w. pubescent center in compensation bio-defense and emerging infectious disease was dedicated at the governmental institutes of health in bethesda, md., last year.
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Indeed, the NIH campus is replete with monuments to the congressional patrons who shoveled cash to it. Buildings there honor still-living pols such as Mark Hatfield, Louis Stokes and Lowell Weicker. Attempts in 2006 to have the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta name its “Global Communications Center” after Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) and its operations center after Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) were blocked at the last minute by Congressional grinches such as Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) and John Campbell (R., Calif.).
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Rep. Campbell says that members of Congress cover for each other when it comes to glory grabs. Last year, the two-term lawmaker objected to an earmark for Mr. Rangel’s academic center viagra because “spending taxpayer funds in the creation of things named after ourselves while we’re still here” was inappropriate. He was swatted down on a bipartisan 316-108 vote. Mr. Rangel, who has been in office since 1971, dismissed Mr. Campbell’s objection: “I would have a problem if you did it, because I don’t think that you’ve been around long enough . . . to inspire a building like this.”
If longevity in Congress is linked to the number of projects named after a living member, the Immortality Prize clearly goes to Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia. John Stossel of ABC News found the Democrat’s name attached to three dozen taxpayer-funded entities in his state, including a highway interchange, education and technology centers and even a telescope. Josh Hagen, a geographer at Marshall University in West Virginia, says all that name-dropping clearly confers benefits. “Name recognition is a big plus for a politician,” he told the Associated Press. “All place names create a kind of invincibility.”
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Indeed, Mr. Byrd is unrepentant, telling Congress in 2001: “Pork has been a good investment in West Virginia, if you look around and see what I have done.” Taxpayers for Common Sense notes it’s easy for him to say that when he’s spending other people’s money, and asks what’s next: rechristening the state “West ‘Byrd’ginia?”
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