Jamie Raskin

All of us grow up with the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about the importance of the press as a watchdog and the importance of the sunlight that the media brings as a disinfectant to potential corruption in government.

But the point is that as long as they are not operating in their professional capacity as a journalist, they would be able to testify about criminal activity they witnessed like everybody else and would be required to.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and thanks to Chairman Palmer for his excellent questions there.

We must work together on a bipartisan basis to strengthen our commitment to a robust free press.

I hope it will be given full consideration.

A Federal shield law like H.R. 4382 will further empower journalists to pursue the truth and hold the government accountable.

Congress must defend actively the free press and the American public's right to know what exactly the government is doing you in our name.

It is time to pass a Federal shield law to protect the press whose work is essential to democracy.

Democracy in its operating principle the rule of law require a ground to stand on and that ground is the truth.

I just saw dozens of our colleagues ask unanimous consent that they reconsider that position so the American people can have a hearing on whether or not we are going to have real elections in 2018. Have you been able to discuss it with the…

Well, why can we not vote on that? The American people are demanding that we defend our elections against foreign attack. Why can we not even vote on that in the House of Representatives? Mr. McGOVERN. If the gentleman will continue to…

I want to ask Mr. McGovern a question so we can get some clarity on where we are right now. As I understand it, one position is that the State election systems are fine, they don't need any infusion of Federal help. And then there is…

The laws and the rules reflect the values of the people and implement our social priorities.

Nobody is in love with regulation, and the biggest tax is on people's time.

The Department of Labor's overtime rule says that hourly wage workers must be paid time and a half when their bosses ask them to work more than 40 hours a week.

I'm planning to surprise everyone by becoming the first American politician in history to defend regulation in its entirety: the notice and comment period, the hearing process, regulatory enforcement, the whole kit and caboodle.

This hearing was called as a followup to the one that we conducted in April on the content filtering practices of social media platforms.

The majority would have us believe this conspiracy theory about anti-conservative bias despite the fact that the Republican Party controls every elected component of our Federal Government.

The crisis caused yesterday by President Trump's abject humiliation before the eyes of the world in his cooperation with Vladimir Putin.

In terms of today's hearing, clearly the majority would prefer to focus on made-up threats, fabricated, phony, and inflated threats instead of the real threats that are facing the United States of America.

I thank Mr. Connolly for those remarks. I agree with that. I think there was an opportunity here where we could have gotten the whole committee together, but the bill does remain way too narrow in terms of addressing just part of the…

Silence can become betrayal. When you see something wrong, you've got to deal with it.

There is nothing more important and nothing is ever more urgent than us having confidence in our justice system.

I believe in my heart... we have created a track through the practices of the DOJ that we've created a road.

Did you make a finding about why Director Comey violated DOJ policy and tradition in the Clinton case while steadfastly refusing to talk about Trump/Russia?