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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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Sep 26, 2023

They have not been able to connect him to a single dime of all of these allegations.

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Sep 26, 2023

I mean, here we are, they're about to shut down the government of the United States of America, something that no foreign enemy of the United States has ever been able to do, all at the beck and call of Donald Trump.

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Sep 26, 2023

The problem is that Donald Trump won't let them call off the wild goose chase because he says they impeached me, so we should impeach him.

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Sep 18, 2023

Yes. I mean, you are not disagreeing that sharing a greater portion of the rebate dollars would lower costs at the drug counter.

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Sep 18, 2023

Isn't it the case that there were $50 billion in 2021 that your members got in rebates that were not passed on to the patients?

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Sep 18, 2023

There is such confusion in this field, and I want to get it straight.

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Sep 18, 2023

everybody should be able to afford the medical care and attention and prescription drugs that they need.

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Sep 18, 2023

I appreciate the insights of all the witnesses and the ways that different players in the healthcare system... may be placing barriers in the way of people just getting affordable medication.

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Sep 18, 2023

If we are interested in benefiting patients and consumers, why should we care about lowest net cost to you?

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Sep 18, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act has already begun to create savings for seniors because we made sure that the market works by giving Medicare the power to negotiate with Big Pharma for lower drug prices.

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Sep 18, 2023

We got to put the patients first.

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Sep 18, 2023

some major pharmaceuticals employed profit-maximizing pricing practices at the direct expense of the people who rely on their medications to survive.

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Sep 12, 2023

One of our colleagues, actually, several of our colleagues raised this issue, but one of them asked whether the Chinese government might have used intellectual property law or lawyers to achieve power over the U.S. Government and to…

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Sep 12, 2023

We do not believe that the talcum powder cases have merit. We believe that that is actually all driven by third-party litigation funding.

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Sep 12, 2023

I appreciate your candor in saying that that was not the case in the opioid litigation, or in the talcum powder case.

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Sep 12, 2023

there is no evidence that has turned up over the last 7 months that Joe Biden is guilty of any criminal wrongdoing

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Sep 11, 2023

Well, it's ridiculous, of course. I mean, you've got people who voted not to impeach Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the Union either because they don't think that's a crime or because they don't think the evidence…

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Sep 11, 2023

There is no evidence of treason, bribery, or high crimes and misdemeanors. There's no evidence of any crime at all by Joe Biden.

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Sep 11, 2023

This is a transparent effort to boost Donald Trump's campaign by establishing a false moral equivalency between Trump, the four-time indicted former president now facing 91 federal and state criminal charges based on a mountain of damning…

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Aug 5, 2023

President Trump tried to bully state-level officials to commit a fraud on the public by literally finding votes. We saw him trying to get state legislatures to disavow and overthrow their popular election results and replace them with…

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Aug 5, 2023

He's calling them 'great patriots.' He's saying, 'Never forget this day.' He continues to laud them to this very day in saying that, when he gets back in, he's gonna pardon all of those people.

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Aug 5, 2023

He tried to steal the entire election. And his lawyer's up there saying, 'Oh, that's just a matter of him expressing his First Amendment rights.' That's deranged. That is a deranged argument.

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Aug 5, 2023

He tried to steal the election away from us.

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Aug 5, 2023

This is a guy who wants to appoint himself completely immune from the rule of law that applies to the rest of us.

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