Jamie Raskin

If we have thousands of more political appointments, that is thousands of more positions that will take a year or two or even more to fill.

Some people love to denigrate and castigate the Federal workforce, but I do not do that.

As his Administration continued, Trump continued to undermine a professional, expert, nonpartisan Federal workforce, and to undermine scientific and policy expertise.

From the beginning of his time in office, the last President made clear his desire to strip the Federal workforce of experts and replace them with loyalists.

America is in a bit of a struggle right now over whether the job of the executive branch is to faithfully implement the laws that have been adopted by the people's representatives or whether it is to serve the personal whims and the…

All of it follows from the lawlessness of Donald Trump, who made them launch this stupid impeachment investigation in the first place.

This was to me a radical breach of decorum and I would hope that Speaker Johnson, if not, Chairman Comer, could get on top of what's taking place over there.

At a certain point, the Republican conference is going to have to get on top of their Marjorie Taylor Greene problem, but instead they continue to empower her.

You can debate the substance of issues, all that you want in a wide open, robust way, you can debate the process is taking place as much as you want. But you cannot engage in face-to-face personal insults against other members including…

The logic of the legislation is airtight.

This legislation would actually affect a hundred percent of the people in the military and a hundred percent of people in Foreign Service.

I find it frivolous that our colleagues across the aisle rejected the best bipartisan package we ever had, at least since I have been in Congress, on immigration.

I want to urge my colleagues to support this commonsense legislation.

I strongly support the Reuse Excess Property Act, which would increase transparency across the government by strengthening reporting requirements around excess personal property.

The military actually has really led the way in American history in terms of overcoming segregation, and Jim Crow, and the barriers to integration and diversity.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. The legislation would require additional reporting on certain Federal projects over budget by a billion dollars or 5 years behind schedule.

I appreciate today's consideration of the Federal Contractors Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act, as well as the work of our colleague, Ms. Mace, in leading on this legislation.

Well, again, I commend the gentleman for bringing this to public attention. That is an extraordinary number of people to lose their lives on the road to private contractors, who seem to have completely escaped the grasp of the rules that…

In other words, the postal truck drivers who are working for the Postal Service have to have all the proper licensure and all the proper certification and training. Presumably the brakes are checked on their trucks, but because of the…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for his eloquent remarks, and I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. LaTURNER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Van Orden), my friend.

I would love to talk to my friend, Senator Kennedy, more about what's going on in the Bayou and on the Louisiana Coast and what can be done about it.

Citizens United has played in this process by essentially transforming every corporate treasury in the country into a potential political slush fund.

The tremendous profits that are made by Big Oil and Big Gas have been rechanneled into the political system.

The companies that are profiting handsomely from this business model have to pay for the costs associated with it

What are we talking about other than the fate of our species?