Jamie Raskin

Obviously, the expansion of marriage to include all of our citizens didn't undermine marriage at all.

Sometimes when you are in the middle of the trees, you lose sight of the forest. So I want to make sure we remark upon what a great and historic day this is, that we are taking up the Equality Act.

The H.R. 5 is going to help improve outcomes for more than 437,000 children and young people in the child welfare system.

I want to salute my colleague David Cicilline for his really passionate advocacy and stewardship of this legislation.

I was a little disappointed. You refused to answer questions about conversations with Attorney General Sessions.

This committee does not accept the argument that you can withhold documents or testimony from us because you have other separate litigation.

The rule that's being violated is that every witness owes truthful testimony to Congress.

Your decision was also struck down on the basis of the Enumerations Clause, so it was constitutional as well.

The Supreme Court has been perfectly clear in a series of cases... that the fact of ongoing litigation is not a valid grounds for withholding documents from Congress.

I must say, Mr. Chairman, I am quite astounded by this line of argumentation today by our colleagues.

Chairman Raskin, your state legislature in Maryland was next, banning the box for public employment in 2013.

This policy may not actually advance the cause that I think is being purported to advance

I do have some concerns that I think we should address and look forward to hearing about today.

Thank you so much. The gentlelady yields, and I come now to the ranking member of the subcommittee, Mr. Roy.

We must remember that our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.

Now if there is evidence that someone is illegally discriminating against African Americans in the Federal hiring process, the remedy for that civil rights violation is to bring the full force of the law down on that individual.

I would urge Mr. Jordan to study the history of his own party because this became an issue in the Civil War, and it was the Republican Party which stood up for the right of noncitizens to vote.

I want to thank you for the extraordinary work you are doing as Chairman of the Oversight and Reform Committee.

Do you find some irony in the fact that we voted--or at least some people voted for a $1.5 trillion tax cut to the wealthiest interests in the country and then come back and complain about a $1.5 million increase to go after the corruption…

I encourage, everyone to actually read the terms of this landmark reform legislation, which insists upon ethics reform at the Supreme Court, ethics reform in the executive branch, empowering the Office of Government Ethics to have real…

I am proud also that I am a Member of the House of Representatives that adopted the most comprehensive and forceful denunciation of anti-Semitism in the history of the U.S. Congress on March 7, 2019.

I'm very troubled that the White House and other parts of the administration have failed to provide us information about the process, as required by a statute that was signed into law by President Trump himself.

I think James Madison said it best long ago, which is that knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

Why is it important that investigators and adjudicators assess these concerns before a security clearance is granted to an applicant?

Tomorrow the Board may face a condition unprecedented in its 40-year history. All three Board seats will become vacant when my term expires.