Jamie Raskin

It's easy to feel outrage about the misdeeds of this corporation, but what about our government that gives license to this kind of corporate irresponsibility and criminality and impunity?

In this committee, we should do more than identify a problem and benefit from a short-term media mention. We should hold people accountable.

I hope that having these hearings--this hearing today does not delay a settlement and result in victims getting less restitution from Purdue and the Sackler family.

I told you this before the hearing was scheduled for the first time and I asked that you delay the hearing until January.

I support this hearing, as you mentioned in your opening statement. However, I am concerned that holding this hearing in the midst of a multibillion dollar settlement negotiation will delay and reduce needed restitution for millions of…

I introduced the first national popular vote legislation when I was a state senator in Maryland, and I've been fighting for the national popular vote interstate compact, and it's a way to get beyond the Electoral College with all of its…

There are real vulnerabilities that we're going to have to deal with going forward.

Fortunately I think the governors of all those states will stand by the legitimate constitutional process, the election process of Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Georgia, as the officials both Democratic and Republican in…

This is just a political command performance by the president, and it's a statement about the absolute degradation of the Republican Party that they all line up like lemmings and get in line and, you know, walk the plank with the president.

It's a completely hypothetical claim, the type that the Supreme Court just makes mincemeat out of on a regular basis.

There's obviously no precedent for that, but there's no standing because there's no injury to those states. It's a totally political question, which means it's non-justiciable, which means it can't go to court.

Well, that's all theater just to keep the fund-raising going. They're making tens of millions of dollars a week shaking down the political apparatus for this.

OMB has identified 425 people, nearly 90 percent of its staff, for conversion to this Schedule F.

The Schedule F is that it undermines the basic premise that our career work force should be selected for their expertise

We actually needed people who were selected for their expertise because they were public stewards

The damage that could be done between now and the next administration is really serious

It is really a fundamental attack upon the core notion that we need merit-based system professionals

His father, Senator Sarbanes, was a model public servant who believed in public service.

This administration has been messing with the civil service.

If a company turns tail and does a U-turn, that the land should go back and they should have to restore it.

Would you agree that an easement by--a pipeline easement generally reduces the value of somebody's property and makes it much harder to sell?

Why do the pipeline companies win more than 99 percent of the time?

Well, would you agree with my assessment that the odds are overwhelmingly on the side of the energy companies at every step in the process?

Are we going to stand up for the rights of the people or for the power of big corporations?

In the last 20 years, FERC has received 1,021 applications to build natural gas projects by energy companies. It has only denied six of more than 1,000.