Jamie Raskin

I mean, when Donald Trump urged everybody to get hydroxychloroquine or floated the idea of just injecting yourself with bleach...

I mean, that, of course was, you know, a catastrophe for the idea of due process privacy and liberty interests against government mandates.

I think my colleague from North Carolina dealt with that.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very kindly for the time.

I am proud to say that Congresswoman Mace and I introduced our bipartisan Cannabis Users Restoration of Eligibility Act, or the so-called CURE Act.

I think that probably had a lot more to do with undermining people's confidence in public health.

I think a bigger question is, did all of the anti-COVID-19 propaganda undermine people's faith in public health?

The COVID-19 cost us nearly a million-and-a-half people in the country.

It seems to me this October 22 meeting, which you've described as a red line is just a misunderstanding.

If Republicans truly want to get to the facts here... let us hear from Mr. Weiss.

No one deserves that. It is abuse. It is abusive.

Republican efforts to use the term 'two-tiered justice' is to distract from those who are truly the victims...

The real criminal and the actual threat to our democratic institutions is Donald Trump: the man found legally liable for sexual abuse

I stand by what I wrote and wish to expand on what this means.

This Inspector Clouseau style quest for something that does not exist has turned our Committee into a theater of the absurd.

The Majority's long-promised star witness turns out to be a fugitive from American justice, an arms trafficker indicted on eight Federal criminal felony counts.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I oppose the legislation.

A republic of course, is just a representative democracy.

I have an amendment at the desk.

I would much prefer if we would spend our time actually examining the problem rather than going through the motions of this pretend legislation.

If there is a serious problem with us voting for appropriations for programs where the underlying authorization has lapsed, then we should have hearings about that.

I rise in support of Mr. Garcia's amendment, and I thank him for his care in developing it.

It also changes the terms used throughout the bill from 'unauthorized programs,' which misleadingly suggests that the programs were never authorized or are operating without legal authority in some way, to instead refer to 'legally…

My amendment prohibits budgetary reductions in program terminations that would otherwise be required by the bill unless they have been determined to have no adverse effect on the entities or populations they are designed to serve.

I urge my colleagues to do the obvious thing and join me in opposing this ill-conceived legislation that will defund veterans' healthcare, housing assistance, programs helping college students afford their tuition, and programs that…