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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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Nov 7, 2023

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson).

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Nov 7, 2023

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Fallon).

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Nov 7, 2023

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 5 minutes remaining.

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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

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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Oct 24, 2023

In 2020, the House passed a resolution, which I had introduced, denouncing the blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws and calling for this to be a central plank in U.S. foreign policy, to free religious prisoners and to strike these laws…

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Oct 24, 2023

All over the world, there are people in prison right now for having been accused of and found guilty of violating blasphemy, heresy, or apostasy laws, which are of course unconstitutional in America.

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Oct 24, 2023

Religious freedom in our country means two things. Our Framers rebelled against centuries of religious warfare... And they came up, in our Constitution, with two parts of religious freedom: free exercise that every citizen has and, also…

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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

Every faith is being discriminated against and persecuted somewhere.

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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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Oct 2, 2023

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from California for her introduction of this legislation with Congresswoman Mace and for her leadership here. The gentlewoman is absolutely right that there are people who may have gotten a college…

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Oct 2, 2023

As ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4502, the Modernizing the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act. I thank my distinguished colleagues, Representative Nancy Mace…

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Oct 2, 2023

I have no further speakers. I urge passage of H.R. 292, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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Oct 2, 2023

I thank the distinguished gentleman from Illinois for his remarks about the naming of this post office, and I strongly encourage all of our colleagues to endorse this significant legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my…

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Oct 2, 2023

Second Lieutenant Patrick Palmer Calhoun was born on March 19, 1941, and raised in Mount Vernon, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia and enlisted in the U.S. Army in the middle of the Vietnam war. While stationed in South…

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Oct 2, 2023

I thank the distinguished gentleman from New Orleans for his eloquent words about Dr. Lombard. May I add, not only was he a hero to the people of New Orleans and Louisiana, but he was also a nationally recognized civil rights advocate who…

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Sep 27, 2023

And again, of course, we know it is not about the evidence.

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Sep 27, 2023

You are being played by these extremists and Donald Trump. It is costing us our economy.

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Sep 27, 2023

This is not partisan warfare America is seeing today. It is chaotic infighting between Republicans and Republicans.

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Sep 27, 2023

Speaker McCarthy's invertebrate appeasement of the most fanatical elements of his conference now threatens the well-being of every American.

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Sep 27, 2023

this 'Seinfeld' impeachment--an impeachment hearing about nothing, apparently--2 days before the government is about to shut down.

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Sep 27, 2023

The people of America elected all 435 of us to do the things they expect Congress to do--real business, not theater--try to have some type of prescription drug reform legislation this year. But, instead, the Majority party is conducting…

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Sep 27, 2023

This inquiry is a cynical attempt to tar everyone, to make everyone look suspect, make everyone look corrupt, so that voters just give up and say, 'There is not much difference here.'

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Sep 27, 2023

Pursuant to clause 2(k)(6) of Rule XI, I move that the Committee subpoena Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas to come and testify in these hearings.

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