Jamie Raskin

Adding such a question raises the serious risk of depressing the response rates of immigrants and other minority communities, leading to an undercount of their numbers.

There were not fine people on the sides of the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazis.

Such bigotry should have no place in American life.

But they're also, I think, mutilating the great old-fashioned art of American heckling.

I'm not quite sure why you would describe Adam Smith as a conservative as opposed to a liberal. He, of course, was a great liberal economist and philosopher.

Those people who consider themselves on the left, as Dr. Weinstein puts it, who are going to meetings and just shouting people down are not only portraying the great principle of the freedom of speech and discourse and debate that…

I think everybody here is agreeing that the First Amendment should apply in full force in a robust way on public campuses.

Under the First Amendment, whether it's religious or secular, they've got a right to develop whatever public philosophy they want about education, don't they?

Shouldn't the students, if they are a recognized student group, at the very least, have the opportunity to invite people to campus?

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.

In government everybody kicks in their $10 or whatever, right? That's how we do it.

The expenditures that are reported here are kind of eye-popping.

I mean, of course, what we're interested in is terminating the underlying practices that are wasting public resources that should be going to people who are in need, right?

Here are the principles, and here's what's getting to get you sent to jail. And we're very serious about enforcing this, because it's the public's money and it's people who need it.

Mr. Raskin. Do the kinds of waste, fraud, and abuse that you identified in the Hardest Hit program afflict the other programs under TARP as well?

Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chair, thank you very kindly.

And if there's billions of dollars that are sitting around that still haven't been programmed, I would like you to reconsider why all these other States, including my own, were roped off from it.

But it's a matter of administrative discretion, right? It was not built into TARP itself.

But although it's helped many people avoid losing their homes, the diligent work of the Special Inspector General for TARP has provoked a lot of bipartisan anxiety about how State agencies are administering the program.

The Hardest Hit program was set up to provide targeted aid to families in States that were decimated by the downturn of the housing markets.

I would love it if Treasury would present us a legal memorandum analyzing whether you've got the authority to include the large parts of America that were excluded from the program.

Where President Trump has shown no leadership, Congress must step into the void.

Well, hello, there's a big difference now. It's everywhere. And so we have to address this in a bipartisan way.

Last month, I introduced the CARE Act with Senator Elizabeth Warren to start treating the opioid crisis like the public health crisis it is.

This is the most deadly national health crisis we have seen in three decades.