Industry scientists and experts testified that the companies knew the burning of fossil fuels caused climate change as early as 1959.
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.
Instead of telling the world about the perils of global warming, in changing their business model, the companies deliberately suppressed relevant scientific findings for decades.
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.
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
I think there was an opportunity there for Big Oil and Big Gas to be heroes.
Instead of telling the world about the perils of global warming, in changing their business model, the companies deliberately suppressed relevant scientific findings for decades.
When the United States Congress comes calling, you owe it to the Congress, the representatives of the people, to give the information.
The idea that natural gas is the panacea for what ails us in carbon emissions is just a pure fantasy and everybody knows it.
the companies that are profiting handsomely from this business model have to pay for the costs associated with it
Citizens United has played in this process by essentially transforming every corporate treasury in the country into a potential political slush fund.
In 2019, we called a hearing in House Oversight on what the oil and gas companies knew about climate change and when they knew it.
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.
The tremendous profits that are made by Big Oil and Big Gas have been rechanneled into the political system.
We view Schedule F as a serious danger to the professional civil service that has been built up over the last several decades.
The Schedule F proposal would permit the President to replace career government workers and experts with political loyalists.
the President's job is to take care that the law is faithfully executed, not that the law is disrupted and remade in his own royal image.
Do you want the Federal Government filled with a bunch of political flunkies, hacks, and sycophants who will say whatever the President wants, or do you want professional scientists and civil servants who are going to follow facts and…
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.
The opposite of that model of government is government in the public interest for the common good.





