Jamie Raskin

The Schedule F proposal would permit the President to replace career government workers and experts with political loyalists.

One of the ways that we lose to authoritarian states is if they can get their claws into our leaders.

The opposite of authoritarianism is democracy and freedom.

There is not a single member of our party who supports Hamas.

The opposite of propaganda is education.

The opposite of that model of government is government in the public interest for the common good.

You have not identified a single crime, but what is the crime that you want to impeach Joe Biden for and keep this nonsense going?

We can talk about China and Trump or Russia and Trump.

One of our colleagues chided our side of the aisle for raising Donald Trump's name.

We have spent tens of millions of dollars on you pursuing Joe Biden and you have not identified a single crime.

You are the one who needs to disentangle from that situation.

But with their intensive programs of propaganda today, the autocrats seek not only to subdue their own populations, but to confuse and demoralize people who live in democratic societies.

Today, for example, Vladimir Putin tries to make people forget about the humanity of 38 million Ukrainians that he wants to control.

Authoritarian states use propaganda to dehumanize their victims and to mask their brutality.

As Prime Minister Kishida of Japan told us on the Floor last week, the Ukraine of today may be the East Asia of tomorrow.

Every minute wasted on spurious conjecture, every sentence spoken amplifying false information, and every hearing spent on unsubstantiated allegations comes at a cost, and at the end of the day, it will be the American people who will pay…

I am worried that today's hearing is setting a dangerous precedent that if Congress doesn't like what you publish, you will be hauled in before a congressional committee to answer for it.

This committee seems to be forgetting that there is a difference between government speech, which the Supreme Court has previously ruled government entities have a right to do, and government coercion.

Co-authored by Representative Raskin

More recently, Representatives Kevin Kiley and Jamie Raskin helped spearhead passage of H.R. 4250, the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act.

In fact, former Vice President Mike Pence, then a Member of this Committee, first introduced such legislation in 2005.

If the press cannot protect its sources, then important truths may never come to light, and Americans in our democracy suffer.

Attempts by government actors and would-be leaders to undermine the press... are an assault on the pillars of our democratic foundation.

A free press informs the American people of important policy issues and government actions that may impact their lives.

The Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act, or the PRESS Act.