I feel the obligation to stand in defense of this subcommittee, which I was the first and I guess the only chair up until this point.
Jamie Raskin: “I feel the obligation to stand in defense of this subcommittee, which I was the first and I guess the only chair up…”
On the recordJanuary 30, 2023
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Raskin defends the importance of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee.
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