Jamie Raskin

Medicaid provides comprehensive, affordable care to more than 70 million Americans regardless of their preexisting health conditions.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.

One dollar of an improper payment is a dollar too much, whether it is a dollar at Medicaid, or the VA, or the Pentagon.

Two-thirds of Americans want to see a ban on AR-15s and military-style assault weapons in the country.

I do insist upon calling a massacre, not a tragedy. "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy. "Hamlet" is a tragedy. "Macbeth" is a tragedy. This was a massacre.

97 percent of the American people want to enact a universal criminal and mental background check.

97 percent of the American people are saying they want a universal criminal and mental background check on all firearm purchases.

Would you please reassure the Marylanders in St. Mary's County, and Americans generally, that you are doing everything that you can to try to tighten up the system...

66 percent of the people want to ban military style assault weapons.

I mean, it sounds good. If we could do it, I think most people would want to do it.

So you are saying in more than 9 out of 10 cases it would be a categorical exclusion, and you are talking about a matter of months or weeks or even a few days?

I want to make sure I know exactly what the law is so we are all clear in terms of the terms of the discussion.

And you don't want us trampling the laws of New Mexico to say we know better than you, we are going to bring it down to the lowest common denominator?

We have dozens of States that have embarked upon experiments with medical marijuana.

Everybody loves federalism in principle. Everybody loves federalism in theory, in the abstract.

It prohibits sexual relationships between Members of Congress and their staffs. It holds offending Members personally responsible for their conduct by requiring that they pay any settlements that are actually made. I thank Chairman Harper…

We have the power under the Constitution to promote the progress of science and useful arts, and we should exercise that power, because, today, our regime stifles musical creativity.

I want to salute Mr. Collins and Mr. Jeffries and all of the members of the committee.

Musicians have to make a livelihood like everybody else.

I love the idea of combining the Music Modernization Act and the CLASSICS Act and the Fair Play Fair Pay Act into a comprehensive statutory bill of rights for musical artists and songwriters and other people in the music industry.

I thank Mr. Lieu for all of his excellent work and leadership both in the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Schneider), another distinguished colleague on the…

It is a critical point because, up until all of this started, basically the President respected the independence of the Department of Justice and we didn't go around searching in people's garbage cans trying to find out whether their wife…

I thank Mrs. Demings for her passion and her leadership. I am delighted to learn today that she will be joining the House Judiciary Committee as a new colleague next week, and I am thrilled about that.

I thank the gentleman, once again, for this opportunity and for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman makes a superb point. We are at a point of record corporate profits. The corporations are swimming in profits and in cash, and if…

I was shocked to read so many prominent elected officials and political operatives on the GOP side saying that the whole reason for doing this is that their donors were effectively going on a strike and the donors were saying: If you don't…