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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.
I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Manning), my colleague and, indeed, my cousin, for her thoughtful and eloquent remarks about Mr. Ferencz. Mr. Speaker, we have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance…
I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Lois Frankel) for bringing this forward. Mr. Ferencz was, indeed, a great lawyer, a great humanitarian, and a great defender of freedom and democracy. We are proud to be able to push…
I have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Valadao). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…
And I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for those beautiful remarks. Elijah Cummings was a great Representative for the people of Baltimore and for the people of Maryland. He was a great leader, and he was a great teacher, too. I remember…
I congratulate the gentlewoman on this legislation. My grandfather, who actually was in politics in Minnesota, was good friends with Floyd Olson, who also was in politics. He was a three-term Governor, an active member of the…
New York lost a seat, and I found an article about that, August 12, 2021, New York Times, 'New York Loses House Seat After Coming Up 89 People Short on Census.'
It seems like that example completely contradicts the thesis that there was some effort afoot to artificially inflate delegations in blue states.
I have no further speakers. I urge everybody to pass this, and I yield back the balance of my time.
In closing, I urge passage of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.
I would turn the Judiciary Committee into the headquarters of congressional opposition to authoritarianism.
I thank the distinguished gentleman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I had a law professor who once asked the class: What are the two most beautiful words in the English language? He said due process. I thought the answer might be…
American civil society and the not-for- profit sector must be protected against political censorship and government vendetta. To get America to bite on this toxic sandwich, they have tucked the rotten unconstitutional meat in with language…
I know you are proud of the 4 million vote majority which the President-elect seems to have now, just as we were proud of the 7 million vote majority that Joe Biden had 4 years ago.
No one should play partisan politics with disaster aid, but that is exactly what your Agency has been doing.
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.
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.
He gets appointed. He would be installed essentially on a recess appointment basis. Yet, he wouldn't be confirmed by the Senate.
I have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. LaTURNER. Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion…
We urge all of our colleagues to support this legislation and for all Federal agencies to cooperate and aggressively participate in this program. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion…
Today I am rising to thank and congratulate Dr. Hugh Auchincloss who is retiring this month as the longtime principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, at NIH, and its former acting…
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and for organizing this Special Order hour on the most important problem of our time, which is democracy. Will we have democracy, or will we lapse into some other form of government, like autocracy or…
The American people deserve honesty, transparency, and integrity from their public officials, full stop.
The broader and authentic context for this hearing is, of course, the spectacular failure of Donald Trump's reckless and incompetent pandemic response.
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