Jamie Raskin

Democracy on earth is under siege by Putin and Russia, Xi in China, Orban in Hungary, Marcos in the Philippines, you name it, Erdogan in Turkey.

Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats, and officials, and Federal officers colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights.

If we are going to do it, let's do it.

Political coercion of business is as distasteful from the right as it is from the left.

This problem goes way beyond it.

I cheerfully concede to that proposition.

The lethal recklessness of Donald Trump's policies about COVID-19 cost Americans hundreds of thousands of lives.

It would still be strange to say that Fox News was censoring itself

The original flaw of this legislation is that it is based on the entirely false premise that government officials pressured or coerced Twitter

There is something a bit presumptuous about legislation called the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act

The gentleman from Georgia says he is in favor of the resolution because he cares about Washington, D.C. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), someone else who cares about…

The United States is the only democratic Nation on earth which disenfranchises the people who live in the capital city.

I would retitle this bill 'The Insult to Injury Bill.'

Third, the former President had no qualms about literally weaponizing our Nation's law enforcement and military against First Amendment activity for his political purposes.

After four years and millions of dollars spent, the Durham investigation closed as a total flop without unearthing anything like the deep-state conspiracy that Republicans have been denouncing around here for years.

Can you think of a more egregious example of weaponizing the Department of Justice for nakedly political purposes than imprisoning and putting in solitary confinement the President's own former lawyer simply because he wanted to exercise…

On our present course, however, this exercise seems little more than a political stunt designed to inject extremist politics into the legislative oversight function and the justice system.

Government abuses of power do not solely rest with the Executive Branch. It can, and we have seen it, come from the Legislative Branch as well.

I want to be crystal-clear: My Democratic colleagues and I will resist any attempt by this Subcommittee to derail ongoing legitimate investigations into President Trump, any other President, and others within his orbit.

Our Framers were enlightenment thinkers who wrote us an enlightenment Constitution. They wanted government to operate on the basis of facts, science, and common sense, not ignorance and superstition.

The violence and the chaos that was reaped upon this institution, not far from where we sit today, on January 6, the attempt to topple a Presidential election and install someone who had not been elected as President, was facilitated by…

The whole hearing was predicated on the idea that the FBI directed Twitter to take down the New York Post story to protect Biden, but, once again, not a single witness testified that the FBI even communicated with Twitter about the New…

Today's witnesses, each and every one, testified that no U.S. Government official directed any of them to censor, remove, or take down the New York Post story.

It is even more important now that we have Members who are actually threatening witnesses with arrest and prosecution for clearly imaginary offenses.

There is a collective responsibility across the private sector and the public sector to address our shared threats.