Jamie Raskin

It would have been a lot better, had Donald Trump essentially not gotten the Republicans in the House to veto the creation of an independent, 9/11-style commission.

We need to deal with every aspect of the attack on our electoral process.

It`s possible, but we haven`t made any final determinations yet, but I have no doubt that she will be a significant part of the report and I hope that at least some of what we got from her will end up in this hearing.

We had real hearings, and 25, 30 million Americans watching because we told the truth about Donald Trump`s assault on democratic institutions and the right to vote in America.

But, instead of mobilizing a serious Federal response, President Trump contemptuously stated that his administration was, quote, 'not a shipping clerk,' and he told the states to go and find their own supplies.

The previous administration's refusal or complete inability to do their job allowed one of the worst pandemics in history to run practically unchecked here in the United States.

I fervently hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle--indeed, every Member of the House of Representatives--will rise to support this bill, the successor to our 2017 bipartisan bill and the successor to the bill that then…

I think that most, if not all of us, are convinced that that clear and present danger is still out there and that we really need to fortify democratic institutions against the threat of coups, insurrections, political violence, and…

Well, I don't want to speculate, but I've got to imagine that people don't want to add perjury to the list of offenses he's got to deal with.

Let me just say the scientific evidence for climate change is unequivocal.

Now is a critical moment for Congress to act and introduce Federal anti-SLAPP legislation.

Congress should address this trend, and restore balance, and promote avenues for free expression and assembly.

The Electoral College is an accident waiting to happen, and we have to deal with that at some point in American history, and why not now?

It`s always been a scheme for self-enrichment for him and he converted the government into an instrument of capital gain for him and his family and his friends.

Well, nobody should be surprised by it because financial crime follows in Donald Trump`s wake.

We have got to defend the right to vote and democracy itself.

This was a Donald Trump operation. So it was always an effort to...

We want to take a much broader view, I think. I mean, the narrowest thing you could say is, well, the vice president doesn't have the power to unilaterally rebuff Electoral College votes from the state...

The Stalinists are on their side, and they should keep them on that side of the aisle, because our side is fighting for democracy in America.

I think we need to take a much broader view about Donald Trump's attack on the entire Electoral College process and the entire democratic process.

Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don`t accept results of elections that don`t go their way, and two, they embrace political violence.

The cause of America like Tom Paine said really should be the cause of all humanity in terms of promoting democracy and human rights and freedom.

The guy is obviously like a mob boss who wakes up and decides who he`s going to try to rip off or exploit that day.

We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing everybody the right to vote.

Democracy is not a static thing but it is a dynamic process.