Jamie Raskin

Under Article IV of the Constitution, we have the power to admit new states.

Take the word of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who dismissed what he called the statehood fallacy.

Take the word of John Dingell, a liberal titan, the longest-serving Member of Congress, who supported every single civil rights measure that passed before Congress for 40 years.

But there's a national political logic for it, too, because the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progress across a whole range of issues.

Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed statehood and recognized the constitutional problem.

You've got to blame the COVID-19 virus on the Chinese government or the Chicoms.

Anti-Asian American violence is skyrocketing. We have seen a 150 percent surge in anti-Asian American hate crimes.

There's no free speech defense to commission of violent assaults on Asian Americans or anybody else.

We couldn't even get a single Republican vote for the $1.9 trillion American recovery plan that is going to finally crush the disease and spread science and vaccination across the country.

Trump's lethal, recklessness, and incompetence in the COVID-19 crisis manifested in his promises that it would magically disappear by Easter or by summer vacation.

Why did President Trump do nothing to stop the attack for at least two hours after the attack began?

Why did President Trump not tell his supporters to stop the attack on the capitol as soon as he learned of it?

I thank the chairman very much for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is reasonable, commonsense gun safety legislation contemplated by Justice Scalia, by the Supreme Court, under the Second Amendment of the Constitution. It is what America needs…

I will withdraw the snowflake comment and keep that to myself if you don't want to hear that today.

You talk about cancel culture? You invented cancel culture, and you continue to stand by while they try to cancel out the voices of anybody in the Republican Party who disagrees with Donald Trump.

You talk to me about cancel culture? You invented cancel culture.

I think that it almost indisputably began on January 6, with the first violent insurrection and mob attack against Congress in the history of the United States, incited by President Trump in an effort to overthrow the results of the 2020…

Liz Cheney from Wyoming said that the President summoned the mob. He assembled the mob, later said he incited the mob.

The President was willing to use any means unlawful, lawful, lawless, violent, whatever.

Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the United States.

Nobody has a constitutional right to be there.

Impeachment is not nearly so much about the past as it is about the future.

This was as we have argued and as we intend to show the worst presidential crime against the republic in American history.

I think that the COVID-19 crisis, I hope if it has taught us nothing else, it is that an invisible and silent threat can shut down the country and can traumatize and kill lots of our people.

America has incurred $1.24 trillion in economic damages since 2005 through various climate disasters and calamities.