Reminiscence of Charlie Lengel through Pargram’s personal encounter on Capitol Hill

“917” was not recognized new york The number that called me.

However, there was no question as to who called after they left a message.

The voicemail sender was completely unmistakable.

They didn’t say their names.

They didn’t have to do that.

“Chad, you’re the only one who missed me,” he cried out.

Former New York Democratic leader Charlie Wrangel died at the age of 94.

It carried the smoothness of a stone grinder moving over the basalts of a West Virginia quarry.

The voicemail was from the late Charlie Langel, DN.Y. And he was essentially calling for him to ensure he was not dead.

After all, I was clearly the only member of Congressional Reporters who realized that New York Democrats were not voted or nearby. US Capitol In a few weeks.

There were no articles on the role call. There’s nothing in Politico. There are no statements from his office.

There was no lingerie.

So I called and spoke to his communications directors Hanna Kim and George Henry Chief of Staff.

Wrangel asked if he was okay. They assured me that he was. But they didn’t speak to me in perfect condition. It was for Wrangel to do.

And we could hear Wangel himself – from his illness – the voice of Manhattan chopping the Jackahammer of his signature.

“I wanted you to hear from me,” Wrangel said.

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It was 2012. Lingel was out due to a back injury and a virus infection, making it difficult to stand for a long time. From 2008 to the second half of 2010, I ran through the halls of Congress every day as veteran lawmakers tackled ethics scandals. The ethical incident peaked at House, censoring Wrangel, forever tainted his record as a war hero, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and chairman of the Way and Means Committee.

The star of Wrangel, first elected to the house in 1970, went dark after an ethics scandal. However, in 2012, all information about elderly people was Legendary lawmaker It was newsworthy like Wrangel. So, as a reporter for Capitol Hill’s Beat, I thanked the phone when he explained the unbearable pain that bothers him.

The home’s ethics committee investigation and criticism could have been more painful with lingel than with the back. Lingel was so sure that he did not violate the rules of the house, so he introduced himself to the ethics committee.

Wangel began to feel the heat of ethics in 2008. He used his position as chairman of the Methods and Means Committee to seek school funding in his name at City University of New York. He failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax or rental income to the villa he owned. dominican republic.

The rent-controlled apartment in Harlem doubled as a campaign office. He improperly parked a 1972 Silver Mercedes-Benz in the garage at the Rayburn House office building. The home prohibits lawmakers from using it to store their garages. Mercedes-Benz lacks plates, it was not registered and apparently not in operation for about four years. The towing company at Falls Church, Virginia, took the car from the garage on September 19, 2008.

Video of a tow truck carrying Mercedes-Benz from Rayburn would have made a juicy story on television the next morning. However, the lingel took a break.

A kind of thing.

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The then house speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, summoned then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Capitol Hill that night. The US economy was on the verge of a grand financial collapse. By the end of the day, it was clear how bad the country’s economy was. Everyone had temporarily forgotten about the Angel. In fact, the inoperable Mercedes-Benz may have been in better shape than some American car companies at the time.

However, the House Ethics Committee was investigating lingerie. The investigation began in 2009, and in 2010 his criticism on the house floor reached its peak. The house voted 333-79 to discipline Wrangel. A gloomy linger placed itself in the well of the house, folding in front of his hand as if he was about to receive communion. Pelosi kicked out her advice from Days and tapped the small giveaway.

“He violated the public trust,” said then-chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

This was the first condemnation of a House member in 27 years.

A few years later, I half joked to Rangel that he could blame me for the ethics committee matters.

As mentioned before, it was Wrangel who believed that his actions were beyond condemnation. So he sent himself to consider his actions before the ethics committee.

I entered the Capitol one morning in 2008 and discovered his longtime aide, Emile Milne, wandering through the basement. I asked Milne what he was looking for. He abandoned the envelope stuffed into me.

“The Ethics Committee,” Milne said.

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This was an actual “self-reference” to the Ethics Committee. And Milne was the courier for the officials that Wrangell uses to protect himself.

The Ethics Committee at the time knew exactly where he was on the Capitol Catacombs. So I escorted Milne to the door.

Like I said, I told Rangel I could blame me for all of his problems.

Betting lingerie somewhere in the Capitol almost every day between 2008 and 2010. The day Pelosi summoned him to her office. Pelosi excluded him as chairman of the Methods and Means Committee. The day he spoke at length on the floor of the house after the ethics panel officially made the investigation.

One night, a reporter’s scrum caught Wrangel in the hallway from the floor of the house and spewed him with many questions. Lingel answered simply. Then it deflects. He then decided that he had enough as the scribe asked him questions at the speed of the Gatling gun.

Lingel sighed, angering what to do.

“Sergeant Charles B. Langel. 85718162!” he cried out. “That’s all!”

It is unclear whether other reporters understand what happened. But I did.

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Lengel served in the Army during the Korean War. He was injured in his back with a rap shotgun, eventually leading dozens of men to safety from the shootout. Several soldiers died, while others became prisoners. Lingel received a brave purple heart and a bronze star.

The lingel survived that day. But back to Capitol Hill, the news cycle effectively took Lingel’s prisoners. There he complied with the terms of the Geneva Convention. The prisoners are forced to provide enemy prisoners with their names, ranks and serial numbers. And after absorbing the fire from the press squad, Wrangel only had one option.

It’s worth noting that there are people in lingerie. Military Records And Army Service passed away on the anniversary.

In August 2008, Rangel published an autobiography entitled “No Bad Days Since Then”. The book records how high school dropouts joined the Army and were injured on the battlefield. The lingerie has chosen to continue. Eventually, he was caught up in Congress as one of the most important lawmakers of the past 50 years. However, Langel faced one of the harshest punishments that could lead to councils getting bored. It sacrificed his chairman to him and defeated his reputation.

However, Langel was often philosophical about his fate and sin in Congress. He insisted that despite the trouble, he had not had a bad day since the fateful battle in Kunuri, Korea in the late 1950s.

Back in 2012, I might have been the only person who noticed Wrangel was missing while he was suffering from back problems and virus infection.

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But I’m certainly not the only one today.