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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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Nov 8, 2021

Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson, for calling this important hearing.

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Nov 3, 2021

I think it corresponds to the views of the vast majority of the American people that within the early period where you have a nonviable fetus that it is within the woman's right to choose under substantive due process liberty.

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Nov 3, 2021

It bans in the case of incest, and it converts everything into this system of bounty hunting where people are essentially turned into vigilantes.

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Nov 3, 2021

Sixty-two million, what she described as our fellow human beings and children have been killed through abortion.

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Oct 27, 2021

Well, I think it was the driving political and legislative and constitutional strategy of the political coup on January the 6th.

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Oct 27, 2021

Well, it had been rejected by the coterie of legal advisors really around Trump and Pence and then Richard Cullen, who was Pence`s lawyer said that it was ridiculous, Judge Luttig told him, it was ridiculous.

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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.

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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.

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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

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Oct 27, 2021

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…

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Oct 26, 2021

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

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Oct 26, 2021

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.

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Oct 26, 2021

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

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Oct 26, 2021

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

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Oct 22, 2021

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…

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Oct 22, 2021

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.

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Oct 22, 2021

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…

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