Jamie Raskin

Thank you, Madam Chair.

We`re just trying to fill in the details now. And we are trying to figure out exactly what the connections are between the Trump entourage and the Trump White House and the oath keepers, the 3 percenters, the different armed insurrection…

I don`t bet against Nancy Pelosi. She is going to land this plane with the help of Chuck Schumer and, of course, because of President Biden`s leadership.

We want to pass the entire package and stop playing parliamentary games with this (INAUDIBLE) year that he`s there.

A subpoena from the United States Congress is about the most serious thing that can show up in your mail box that you can be served with.

Failure is not an option for us because democracy is at stake we’ve got one Democracy Party, which is the Democratic Party we have another political party that’s basically been hijacked by one right wing authoritarian guy who is demanding…

This cesspool of conspiracy thinking is activating unstable individuals predisposed to commit violence.

That is an outrage and that is a scandal. That is totalitarian.

Every family's situation is different. And the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey made this a personal decision.

Should the law be changed so that women and girls who are raped can be forced to bear their rapist's child?

That is America in the 21st century today with the constitutional right to privacy under attack.

Who is going to make these most private and intimate decisions?

The point is every woman's situation is completely different and deeply personal.

Women in the United States have had a constitutional right to an abortion since 1973, and that is not an argument. That is an old-fashioned thing called a fact.

We're trying to reconstruct the entire chain of events that led to the most violent assault on the U.S. Capitol since the war of 1812, in 1814.

I know you speak for millions of Americans across the political spectrum in wanting to ensure that Americans civil rights and civil liberties are not sacrificed by the government in the creation of a surveillance state.

Our government has finally woken up to the need to combat, comprehensively and effectively, white supremacists and militia-based violent extremism.

We are facing an unprecedented situation in which political leaders, up to and including a former President, have been actively promoting corrosive anti-democratic messages that circulate paranoia, cynicism, and violence.

The protest that turned into a riot and an insurrection had been promoted and incited by then-President Donald Trump.

This is not just an important, but today's is an historic hearing because for the first time, an Administration has answered our call to set forth a comprehensive whole-of-government strategy to deal with the threat.

I'm concerned about the rampant misclassification of employed workers as independent contractors to evade and undermine worker protections, especially in the so-called gig economy.

If we want something from them, they`re going to turn it over. We`re going to subpoena them, they`re going to follow the law.

We`re fighting for democracy right now. We`re fighting for the constitution.

We`ve got one party now which is committed to democracy and the constitution. That`s the Democratic Party.

Well, they`re systematically trying to replace anybody who got in the way of their plans on January 6th and in the weeks leading up to January 6.