Jamie Raskin

He did not fund research to create the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just like the broader Committee's impeachment drive proved only that there were no Presidential crimes, much less high crimes and misdemeanors, attributable to Joe Biden, the investigation of Dr. Fauci shows he is an honorable public…

According to Dr. Deborah Birx, Donald Trump's own COVID-19 advisor, America unnecessarily lost hundreds of thousands of people because of the recklessness and indifference of Donald Trump and his administration.

Under Donald Trump, when the COVID-19 pandemic began and spun out of control, we came close to becoming a failed state.

Public health is a matter of urgent and comprehensive public concern.

Those are all assaults on democratic norms and democratic processes.

Every time he's gotten in really serious trouble, it's been because he's tried to shake down the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to try to set up Joe Biden and lie about Joe Biden or, you know, here in this case, he wanted to pay hush money…

I felt some relief and vindication for the rule of law.

We've seen so many lawless assaults on our democracy, whether it's voting rights whether it is the rights of women to choose their own destiny and their own medical privacy issues.

We need to mobilize the vast majority that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and expand that with all of these millions of young new voters in America to fight for a future that's befitting the greatest multicultural, multi religious…

I do want to see that the rule of law works and is vindicated against these incessant, outrageous attacks on the rule of law.

But what the Supreme Court has said is that this is an objective test, not a question of subjective introspection and will on the part of the particular judge.

What does that say to the parties before them?

So there are several cases that I talked about in this op-ed the Supreme Court considers this matter of ethics, not just this discrete and esoteric field. This is constitutional. It goes right to the right of due process.

The ABA ethics rules governing recusal... specify that justices must pay attention both to the reality and the appearance of their spouse's potential financial and personal conflicts of interests, as well as their own.

It's their ability to influence the other justices as well, which is so problematic.

As Secretary of Energy, do you think climate denialism is dangerous to the future of our country?

The ex-President just went before a whole bunch of oil and gas executives and essentially demanded that they give his campaign a billion dollars.

With every passing day, the consequences of climate change grow in intensity.

Because of this deception, we have lost crucial decades in which we could have been systematically transitioning away from dirty, polluting fossil fuels to the cleaner alternative energies we need.

Climate change is the defining crisis of our time, and we know that burning fossil fuels is, by far, the leading factor in contributing to climate change.

I thank Mrs. McBath for her magnificent leadership on this and her commitment to creating decent conditions in our prisons. I thank her for the beautiful example of her commitment based on her love of Jordan and her whole family and…

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

I have no further speakers. I yield myself such time as I may consume for the purpose of closing. Madam Speaker, I urge everybody to support this fine legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Our Constitution clearly defines roles for the branches of government. Congress writes the laws and appropriates funding.