Jamie Raskin

I believe that would be a profound failure.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman.

Did I hear you correctly to say that there were thousands or even hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Twitter accounts set up by Russian propaganda?

But instead of letting this trivial pursuit go, my colleagues have tried to whip up a full scandal about this two-day lapse in their ability to spread Hunter Biden propaganda on a private media platform.

But this morning, we returned not to focus on advancing this robust agenda of progress, but instead to take up an authentically trivial pursuit, all based on the obsessive victimology of right-wing politics in America.

Thank you kindly, Mr. Chairman. Last night in his State of the Union address, over all the heckling, President Biden reviewed significant achievements his Administration and congressional Democrats are delivering for the American people.

It would be great if people will just say we don't believe that, and we would like to turn down the temperature on this.

No one has said that. And I disavow and renounce and denounce that sentiment.

It actually--that's not what it says, Mr. Chairman. I'm happy to read it.

But all we have to go on otherwise are prior statements that people have made.

I would love nothing more than to have every member of this committee together, you and I could issue a statement together on behalf of the entire committee, denouncing the great replacement theory.

It's been a long day, but very productive day.

It says: Good morning to everyone, except Oversight members who are using today's hearing to amplify White nationalist conspiracy theories instead of a comprehensive solution.

86 percent of the people convicted of fentanyl smuggling in 2021 were American citizens, not foreign nationals.

We are a land premised on opportunity and freedom and dedicated to the proposition that all of us are created equal.

The purpose of oversight is to collect facts that will allow us to legislate effectively to promote the common good and solve the Nation's problems.

I have never seen more financial fraud and abuse of this system than I saw in the previous administration under Donald Trump.

Let me say that, again, these programs saved lives.

Our job on this committee is to defend our democracy and our basic institutions, to protect our rights as Americans.

The bottom line here is that expanded unemployment insurance... allowed millions of people to fill in financial gaps.

I am proud that we included those provisions in the CARES Act precisely to ferret out fraud, to try to prevent the waste and abuse.

In March 2021, we exposed how the Trump administration's reckless mismanagement of small business relief programs led to nearly $84 billion in fraudulent loans.

The traditional language of waste, fraud, and abuse does not quite capture the confidence games in organized criminal artifices.

I was hopeful for an opportunity to consider together how we can identify schemes of fraud and self-enrichment.

Our committee's purpose is to ensure that government is effectively delivering on its promises to the American people.