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Rangel Passes Up Payback to Get Trade Deal Done

By Gene Sperling | May 21, 2007

Charles Rangel never got the memo. Such a memo might have said: Now that you are chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee following the Democratic sweep of Congress last year, it's time for partisanship and payback.

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This article was originally published in Bloomberg.

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