Jamie Raskin

We have seen, not only the daily mounting, gruesome death toll in every community across America where 96 people die from gun violence every day.

Thanks for joining us, Andrea, and that you stand for hundreds of people here today who have lost family Members and friends and hundreds of thousand across the country who are begging us to do something.

It's about strengthening the Office of Government Ethics.

So we need to protect the right to vote against these constant efforts to take people's right to vote away.

There's been a profound struggle for the right to vote in American history.

We've dismantled the property and wealth qualifications, and at every turn, there have been forces of conservatism and reaction that have tried to stop the changes.

They said they were going to drain the swamp, Mr. Chairman. They moved into the swamp.

It is our role as Congress to guarantee that we are a government of the people.

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

Our colleagues across the aisle now are openly championing gerrymandering, which is reviled by the vast majority of the American people.

H.R. 1 is serious business. It is about restoring democracy and the trajectory of Democratic enlargement and equality in our history.

They have been taking money from foreign princes, kings, and governments in direct violation of the emoluments clause.

A great Republican president spoke of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

I do not think our colleague fled for lack of courage.

Like these, most Federal rules are commonsense protections of vital freedoms that we cherish.

Our job in Congress here is to pass laws that reflect the values of the people and implement our priorities.

This rule will deny green cards to immigrants trying to provide food for their families with SNAP assistance.

It just seems to see where our priorities are, they certainly aren't for the everyday working families, hard-working families, and poor families, and disabled families.

The issue is that if they get a chance to work, they might have to work six jobs in order to make enough money not to qualify for SNAP.

I just want to contextualize that, because I think there is an absurdity in this undertaking that we have here today.

I am reading that 93 percent of SNAP spending goes directly into the purchase of food.

Basically, the person will walk into the store, the card will be swiped, cash will be given to that recipient.

But their store, in other words, no longer could participate.

So the most common form, there is around 900 cases over the last 5 years.