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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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Apr 22, 2022

they stormed their doors, they shattered our windows, they shut down the counting of Electoral College votes for the first time in American history.

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Apr 20, 2022

This was a coup organized by the president against the Vice President and against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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Apr 20, 2022

Trump was prepared to seize the presidency and likely to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.

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Apr 20, 2022

Nobody loves paying taxes, but what hardworking taxpayers hate the most is rich corporations and people like Donald Trump getting away with paying little or no taxes.

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Apr 20, 2022

Only 11 percent of the 282 million total calls made to the IRS were answered last year.

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Apr 20, 2022

Megan called the IRS more than 50 times and never reached a real human being.

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Apr 17, 2022

This was a coup organized by the president against the vice president and against the Congress in over -- in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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Apr 14, 2022

Nobody wants to get left behind because the truth is coming out in the way that it`s supposed to in a democracy. There are lots of characters who are not known to the broad public today who were involved in this. It will be, I think both…

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Apr 14, 2022

It’s a question of going forward. How are we going to fortify ourselves and fortify democratic institutions in processes against coups, and insurrections, and subversion in the future?

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Apr 14, 2022

We know that there was a one line of attack, which was a violent insurrection, unprecedented in our history, which ended up injuring, wounding, hospitalizing more than 150 of our police officers and interrupting the peaceful transfer of…

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Apr 14, 2022

Well, nobody wants to get left behind because the truth is coming out in the way it’s supposed to in a democracy.

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Apr 14, 2022

It will be, I think, both agonizing and riveting for the country to see how close we came to losing it all.

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Apr 11, 2022

The Get Foreign Money Out Act is an attempt to address at least part of the problem revealed by what’s happening here which is the infusion of foreign government money or foreign corporate money into domestic corporations and then…

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Apr 11, 2022

This is a down payment on corrupt relationships in the future. It’s an investment in the restoration of the Trump-ocracy, rather than, you know, the payoff for services rendered.

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Apr 11, 2022

It was a money-making operation from the beginning. That’s the way I see it and I do fault the Democrats for not more aggressively pushing the foreign government emoluments that Donald Trump was raking in from Saudi Arabia and from the…

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Apr 6, 2022

I think students have their right to check out age-appropriate material from their libraries, whether or not it contains material that's divisive.

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Apr 6, 2022

Banning and censoring books benefits absolutely nobody.

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Apr 6, 2022

I think they were about to gavel her down or tell her she had to be removed.

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Apr 6, 2022

I do want to thank my friend from Pennsylvania. Sometimes when I hear him in the committee, I think about another great Republican who served in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens. But today, my friend let me…

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Apr 6, 2022

That kind of heckling is fine for me.

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Apr 6, 2022

I would also just ask you to read page 59 in my book, We the Students about Board of Education v. PICO, which dealt with just precisely the process you are talking about, but where the Supreme Court still said you can't strip books from…

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Apr 6, 2022

Banning books of those of minority background and unique backgrounds, silences their voices and erases their history, and arguably is taking away the right to express themselves.

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Apr 6, 2022

It is up to us to defend Mr. Kinzinger and to defend Ms. Cheney, because if you don't go along with what Donald Trump says, if you don't act like you are a robot, or a member of a religious cult, they will attack you, they will vilify you…

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Apr 6, 2022

You have not been heckled by any of our Members, while I was heckled by---- Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I have the time. You have the gavel. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Courtney). The gentleman from California is recognized. Mr. McCARTHY…

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