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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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Jun 26, 2022

The Federal Government can certainly, and Congress can, of course, provide the resources that are needed for communities.

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Jun 26, 2022

Harm reduction policies, as me, as a provider and a local health physician, I can tell you is all about building community trust.

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Jun 22, 2022

there's so much more passion for democracy in the country than there is support for insurrection and coups.

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Jun 22, 2022

I want to thank you first for your service in the White House, operating in the face of a lot of propaganda and a lot of obfuscation.

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Jun 22, 2022

the courageous acts of a lot of strong constitutional patriots along the line that prevented a whole series of plots from succeeding.

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Jun 22, 2022

the Department of Justice which people like to think of as a paragon of legal neutrality and objective decision-making suddenly being saturated by these outrageous political demands by the president of the United States.

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Jun 22, 2022

I don't see the President so I don't have a counterbalance opportunity to this Atlas dogma.

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Jun 22, 2022

Do you think that there is any connection between these two things, that he wanted to listen to the people who were telling him, like Dr. Atlas, just to let COVID-19 run wild?

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Jun 22, 2022

I think that they believed the counterfactual points that were never supported by data, from Dr. Atlas and his team.

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Jun 22, 2022

Would you agree with me, Doctor, that a critical ingredient to a successful public health strategy is social cohesion?

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Jun 22, 2022

We have lost more than 1 million Americans, and had the scientific advice been heeded by the Administration how many people might we have saved?

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Jun 22, 2022

I would like to ask unanimous consent to introduce this excellent staff report called 'The Atlas Dogma: The Trump Administration's Embrace of a Dangerous and Discredited Herd Immunity Via Mass Infection Strategy.'

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Jun 22, 2022

The January 6 Committee has determined that Donald Trump has knowingly, deliberately lied--it is obvious from all of the evidence--about who won the Presidential election.

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Jun 22, 2022

I just wanted it to be the Twilight Zone and all go away.

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Jun 22, 2022

The idea that the only vulnerable people are the ones living in nursing homes is ridiculous, is it not?

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Jun 22, 2022

But you just testified a moment ago that the President failed to act on it because they were interested in the politics of trying to, well, win the election first.

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Jun 21, 2022

After The Washington Post expose of decades of sexual harassment in the team, Dan Snyder announced he'd be conducting an independent investigation into the toxic workplace culture.

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Jun 21, 2022

But then when allegations surfaced implicating Mr. Snyder himself, the NFL said it was taking over the investigation.

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Jun 21, 2022

I'm puzzled by this, too: Why would you pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to investigate sexual harassment in a toxic workplace environment, but then publish no written report about it?

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Jun 21, 2022

Why wasn't redaction sufficient to protect the anonymity of the women being interviewed in the case of the Washington team when it was sufficient in the case of the Dolphins?

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Jun 21, 2022

How is that protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the women, which you've asserted is your key value here?

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Jun 20, 2022

Everything we describe today, the relentless, destructive pressure campaign on State and local officials, was all based on a lie. Donald Trump knew it. He did it anyway.

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Jun 19, 2022

If you allow impunity for attempts at unconstitutional seizure of power, which is what a coup is, then you`re inviting it again in the future.

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Jun 18, 2022

somebody who does their job and sticks to the law will stand out as a hero on that day.

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