Rangel Admitted to Hospital with 'Flu Symptoms'

by Russell Berman
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 at 5:15 PM

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The dean of New York's congressional delegation and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem, was taken to the hospital yesterday with what an aide described as "flu-symptoms."

Mr. Rangel, 77, was feeling ill at his Manhattan home yesterday and summoned a doctor, a spokesman for the congressman, Emile Milne, told The New York Sun. He said Mr. Rangel's condition was not serious and that he could be released as early as this evening.
"They wanted to hydrate him," Mr. Milne said. "The doctor came to his house and looked at and thought it would be a good idea."

The congressman was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University, Mr. Milne said.

First elected to Congress in 1970, Mr. Rangel assumed the chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee after the Democrats won control of the House in 2006.

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