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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.

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Jan 16, 2024

Their ability to secure the border has dramatically increased under the Biden and Harris Administration.

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Jan 16, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration has failed to secure the Southern border.

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Jan 16, 2024

It has become obvious that Trump's party does not want immigration solutions at the border. They want immigration problems to run against.

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Jan 16, 2024

Today, our colleagues are using their first full Committee hearing of the year to distract from the depressing reality that they failed to bring forward even a single piece of serious bipartisan legislation.

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Jan 10, 2024

The Army decided that it wanted to rename military bases that had been named, not after U.S. generals, but after Confederate generals who joined the Confederacy in rebellion against the Union.

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Jan 10, 2024

I could not disagree more with him for doing that and hurting our force and those general and flag officers.

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Jan 10, 2024

After Donald Trump's gerrymandered Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and women's right to choose

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Jan 3, 2024

His businesses received $7.8 million in payments from foreign governments

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Jan 3, 2024

By defying the constitution, he basically fulfilled the founders' worst fears, which is that the president, in order to line his own pockets, would sell out the American interest in favor of particular foreign governments looking for…

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Jan 3, 2024

He not only lined his own pockets, but he repeatedly sold out the American public interest in favor of the interests of these foreign governments.

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Dec 14, 2023

We're going to make sure that we have lawyered up at every point to defend the real democratic process such as it is against the Republicans ... who understand that they have to act like autocrats.

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Dec 14, 2023

As long as the Democratic Party can keep the young people engaged and behind us as the party of democracy and freedom, then it will be a gigantic distance between the Democrats and Republicans.

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Dec 14, 2023

You know, Hillary Clinton beat him by 2.5 million votes. Joe Biden beat him by more than 7 million votes.

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Dec 14, 2023

And then, of course, that's just the beginning because then we have to prevent it from being stolen by Donald Trump.

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Dec 14, 2023

Democracy is actually a real system of government that requires tens of thousands of people to go out, to educate voters, to register voters, to count people's ballots.

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Dec 14, 2023

Well, I like the fact that a lot of these people are finally getting their comeuppance. It's sort of a glorious thing to see Fox News pay out $787 million to Dominion Voting System to see Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman who were defamed by…

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Dec 10, 2023

Thank you so much for joining us and for your great representation of your constituents.

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Nov 7, 2023

Well, some of them live in alternative universe. They watch a different network than yours, Anderson, and so they actually think that there's something there, even though it's perfectly clear to the rest of the country that they've found…

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Nov 7, 2023

It is amazing to me, Anderson, that rather than take the lesson from what Americans said yesterday, which is cut out the extremism, the fanaticism, the politics of personal destruction. They're just diving right back in again.

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Nov 7, 2023

I couldn't believe that one day after the voters of America repudiated all the politics of extremism and fanaticism that we've seen in the Oversight Committee, they decide to double down on their wild fishing expedition into the Biden…

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Oct 24, 2023

Every faith is being discriminated against and persecuted somewhere.

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Oct 24, 2023

You can save somebody from spending the rest of their life in prison.

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Oct 24, 2023

I belong to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. I have adopted numerous prisoners of conscience.

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