Jamie Raskin

I am formally notifying the ranking member and members of the committee that I intend to issue subpoenas to the fossil fuel entities represented here today.

I would hope that the corporations which have received a lot of beneficence, a lot of bounty from the U.S. taxpayers, at the very least would not lie about climate change and would not try to drape themselves in the First Amendment in…

Well, use your common sense, and I appreciate the fact you are not a lawyer.

The First Amendment does not protect fraudulent commercial speech, despite everything you heard today.

We cannot afford any more propaganda campaigns by corporations subsidized by the government against public policies designed to save humanity.

Donald Trump's party of denialism is engaged in campaigns of propaganda and disinformation about climate change.

Exxon was publicly promoting views that its own scientists knew were wrong, and we know that because we were the major groups working on this.

You could commit to changing course and taking actions that would avert a climate catastrophe, or you could continue to deny and deceive.

It is time for the fossil fuel industry to finally change its ways.

We are at the beginning of this investigation. I assure you we will not stop until we get to the truth.

Totally. OSHA totally abandoned its mission to ensure employers could protect workers in the last administration.

Some of these companies are treating the workers in the plants not much better than the animals that go through them. And this is a scandal. And I wish that OSHA would get back to the job it's assigned to do.

This is just an absolute scandal and an outrage, that the workers in meatpacking plants have been left exposed like this.

Last year, while workers faced these epidemic COVID-19 outbreaks, meatpacking companies were raking in record profits.

We’ve come as close to fascism as we want to come in America and we’re not putting up with any of that nonsense anymore.

The vast majority of people we`ve called up for interviews, or that we`ve subpoenaed have either come to testify in an interview or are engaged in good faith negotiations with the committee. We`re not trying to put people in jail, we`re…

If you get subpoenaed by a court or by Congress to come down and testify, you think you might have a Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to invoke at some point, you take all of the questions starting with what is your…

No, we won’t tolerate perpetual denial here.

Yes. There were definitely more Republican votes than I was expecting given that Kevin McCarthy was whipping the vote very hard to try to get everybody, you know, on the side of not issuing the criminal contempt referral for Bannon.

If you act deliberately with sneering cavalier contempt for the American people, we will hold you in contempt.

Donald Trump has taken over the GOP and they have organized themselves literally around a lie, a lie that`s been rejected in 61 federal and state courts all the way up to the Supreme Court, a lie that was rejected by numerous election…

That was the whole purpose of this thing. And the GOP had 27 states, although I don`t think they would have gotten Wyoming`s Liz Cheney, who is the at-larger up there, but it still would have left them with 26 states in the majority.

You don`t knock over the U.S. Congress and disrupt Electoral College counting for the first time in American history by accident, and you don`t do it for free.

We really did need to have a hearing about Kyle Rittenhouse and the two protesters that he shot and killed with his assault weapon.

Trump now tries to get his followers like Steve Bannon, not to testify here and not to turn over evidence that they have about this vicious assault on American democracy. In America when you are subpoenaed to testify in court, or in…