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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Apr 30, 2025

Mr. President, yesterday marked 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn in as President. It happened right down that hallway. He promised a golden age for America. He has not delivered that golden age. In fact, in that 100 days, all he has…

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Kweisi Mfume
@kweisimfume· Democratic · MD· Apr 29, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H. Res. 353. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's request is granted. ____________________

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Andy Harris
@andyharris· Republican · MD· Apr 29, 2025

Mr. Speaker, the United States has $36 trillion in Federal debt. Our debt-to-GDP ratio is greater than Greece and Italy when they had their debt crisis, and we are incurring a deficit of $2 trillion a year. The most rapidly growing part of…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 10, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I rise to remember my beloved friend and Montgomery County legend, Jack Fitzgerald, who passed away this week at the age of 89. He will be sharply missed by friends, family, and customers of the Fitzgerald Auto Malls up and…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 9, 2025

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, nays 213, not voting 1, as follows: [Roll No. 98] YEAS--219…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court has already rejected at least two of the actions that Donald Trump has taken since he got in. One was firing the executive director of the Office of Special Counsel. He was reinstated. The other was…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his astute observations there and say that Judge Kacsmaryk was reversed several times by higher courts. We never came out and said, therefore, let's ban nationwide injunctions. We did say we should…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record ``The Lost History of the `Universal' Injunction,'' a law review article by Mila Sohoni refuting what was just stated by the gentleman. The universal injunction, the nationwide injunction, goes back at…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\3/4\ minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Goldman).

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, the link to the entire document can be found here: https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/920- 1009__Online.pdf. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson), the…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Both Democrats and some Republicans have assailed the clearly unlawful nature of this trade war instituted by President Trump based on tariffs against the entire world except for…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, just to answer a couple of things raised by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan), my friend. First of all, that is not what the Supreme Court said. The Supreme Court…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I will answer my good friend, the chairman of the subcommittee, about the remarks he just made. He is correct that the President, of course, like Members of Congress…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1526. I heard the majority was bringing legislation forward to clean up a major policy crisis taking place within the first 100 days of…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, nationwide injunctions are something that my friends across the aisle not only endorsed but took liberal advantage of in the last administration. Remember Judge Matt Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas? They were…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, listening to the debate, it occurs to me that Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid should have just denounced traditional activism and moved to change the Federal rules of civil procedure: Always better to…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Apr 8, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal). {time} 1545

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Apr 4, 2025

Mr. President, before I deliver the body of my remarks, I do want to respond briefly to my colleague, the Senator from Wyoming, on the question of national security because just last night, we learned that President Trump had fired the…

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