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Jamie Raskin

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Jamie Raskin is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Raskin has been an advocate for various progressive policies, including healthcare reform and civil rights. He gained national attention for his role in the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump, where he served as a lead impeachment manager during the Senate trial in early 2020.

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Jun 18, 2018

The amazing thing is that the majority chose to reenter this maze when your report was perfectly clear on its findings.

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Jun 18, 2018

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

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Jun 18, 2018

No, too many of my Republican colleagues instead seem stuck in a perpetual Trump campaign rally, shouting 'lock her up' with the rest of the crowd, hoping that the public won't notice how little they have accomplished with their time in…

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Jun 18, 2018

The House of Representatives is going to use its full arsenal of constitutional weapons to gain compliance.

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Jun 18, 2018

I suspect that if the majority were actually motivated by the sensitivity of classified information in the Clinton case they would have also said something by now about the highly sensitive Israeli operation revealed to Russian officials…

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Jun 18, 2018

I suspect it has something to do with the way Republicans have squandered their opportunity to govern and the consequences of abdicating that responsibility.

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Jun 18, 2018

Are we really going to sit here, 70 Members of the Congress of the United States of America, in 2018 and have a hearing that just repeats the hearings the Senate had yesterday on Hillary Clinton's emails?

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Jun 18, 2018

We need you to stand up to President Trump. We need you to join us in telling him that we reject this mean policy.

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Jun 18, 2018

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?

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Jun 18, 2018

This was a policy invented, implemented, and executed by President Donald Trump.

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Jun 18, 2018

House Republicans have done little or nothing to secure our next election from foreign attack; or to push back against the Attorney General's unprecedented refusal to defend in court the key protections of the Affordable Care Act; or to…

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Jun 18, 2018

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

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Jun 18, 2018

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

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Jun 15, 2018

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

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Jun 15, 2018

I thank Mr. Griffith for his succinct and excellent summary of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Griffith-Raskin-Jackson Lee amendment. I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his excellent work on this with his…

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Jun 14, 2018

I thank Ms. Jayapal for participating in the Special Order. What does climate change have to do with poverty? Well, today we face accelerating extreme weather events, such as intensifying hurricanes that displaced and impoverished hundreds…

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Jun 14, 2018

I thank Representative Jackson Lee for her eloquent words. There is a distinction between misfortune and injustice. I know this because I am somebody who is a cancer survivor. If you wake up one day and a doctor tells you that you are…

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Jun 14, 2018

I thank Ms. Moore for that powerful testimony. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), my colleague.

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Jun 14, 2018

I thank Ms. Jayapal for her eloquent statement and thank her for her leadership here in Congress. One of the shocking findings of the Poor People's Campaign is that there are nearly 140 million Americans, more than 43 percent of people in…

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Jun 14, 2018

I thank Mr. Khanna so much for his very moving statement that he made. I yield now to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), my colleague, who has been a terrific champion for economic equity and social justice in our country. I am…

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Jun 14, 2018

I am delighted to take this hour with several of my distinguished colleagues to talk about a matter of moral, social, political, and economic urgency to the American people, which is the vast group of Americans who are living in poverty…

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Jun 7, 2018

But don't you think the proper road to go for those who want to put a citizenship question and want to impose the citizenship requirement for voting, which has never been there, is to amend the Constitution?

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Jun 7, 2018

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.

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Jun 7, 2018

Its conduct is disgusting, immoral, and hypocritical.

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Jun 7, 2018

the census must count, quote, "the whole number of persons," unquote.

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