Jamie Raskin

He gets appointed. He would be installed essentially on a recess appointment basis. Yet, he wouldn't be confirmed by the Senate.

I think it's just impossible to contemplate that the U.S. Senate, you know, even as much as they're under the thumb of Donald Trump, would actually vote to confirm him without the ethics committee report being released.

This is the absolute triumph and takeover of the Republican Party by MAGA, and it will be the takeover of the U.S. government by MAGA, if the Senate lets all of these people go through.

Matt Gaetz is a MAGA zealot and a Trump sycophant and a confidant.

I definitely don't assume that.

I introduced a bill to transition the essential functions of PRAC to a permanent entity called the Government Spending Oversight Committee.

That would be a tip-off.

The companion bill to the one I have introduced in the House has broad bipartisan support over in the Senate.

In fact, Donald Trump's knowing and willful lies cost America at least tens of thousands of deaths, according to his own White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx.

The broader and authentic context for this hearing is, of course, the spectacular failure of Donald Trump's reckless and incompetent pandemic response.

But I confess, Mr. Chairman, that I'm appalled by the majority's decision to evade and bypass the central events of the epidemic for totally political reasons.

The American people deserve honesty, transparency, and integrity from their public officials, full stop.

Any public official who sought to obscure transparency or mislead the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic should answer to the American public regardless of political party.

I urge everyone to support the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am in favor of this legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

The director has lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country. And we need to very quickly move beyond this.

Joe Biden beat him by more than 7 million votes, 306 to 232 in the electoral college.

I certainly hope he does not try to steal the election the way he did last time.

Your problem is the jury system in New York which found unanimously that Donald Trump was guilty of 34 criminal felonies.

That is why Congress set up the EPA. That is why Congress set up the National Labor Relations Board. That is why Congress set up the Department of Justice.

Well, if there are brainwashed cultists on the issue, it is the people who are following the conspiracy theories of QAnon and assert that scientists like Dr. Fauci are trying to invent diseases.

We believe that climate change is real and is a dagger pointed at the throat of humanity.

Most Americans want the EPA to be doing more.

Americans want the EPA to be doing more to stop climate change, not less.

I wanted to pose one question to Ms. Tlaib and then one to the Administrator.