Jamie Raskin

There's nothing in the law that stops you from doing that.

But you wash your hands of that. FERC basically washes its hand of that process.

I want to start with you, Mr. Morenoff, I assume you're not bragging about the new policy on tolling orders adopted by FERC, because that was done, prompted by the D.C. Circuit Court's ruling which cited the work of our subcommittee…

FERC turns out to be biased, severely, against individual property owners, against the citizens of the country.

FERC has become a rubber stamp for the energy companies that want to build pipelines on other people's land.

This is yet one more effort by the administration to politicize and destabilize and disrupt the Census in violation of the Constitution.

They want to ignore the plain text of the Constitution and overturn centuries of governmental practice by not counting all of the persons in the United States.

So just as the President has been waging sabotage on the American electoral process, he has been waging sabotage and war on the Census.

Do you agree with this decision to rush the count and data processing could affect the quality and the accuracy of the data assembled?

Shouldn't the Bureau actually have been given more time than usual to finish its work rather than less?

Look, you did warn, on November 1, 2020, that we are entering the most deadly phase of this pandemic.

My constituents have been calling to voice opposition to this plan. Federal employee groups are up in arms about it, and we should not be using Federal workers as pawns.

Last week, I sent you a bipartisan letter from more than a hundred different Members asking you to ensure that victims of domestic violence, rather than their abusers, get their stimulus checks.

This question of propaganda disinformation is very important in terms of us trying to preserve the integrity of popular democracy in the States in this Presidential election.

President Trump has been engaged in a lot of propagandistic disinformation already about the election, calling it a fraud, a scam, a hoax, millions of fake ballots, and all of that stuff.

Madam Chair, thanks for your great leadership in calling this hearing and making sure that we are staying laser-focused on the integrity and fairness of this election.

This is a dangerous concept. Herd immunity, if this is gaining traction within the White House and with the President, will end up costing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American lives.

President Trump praised President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party on 37 different occasions.

You know herd immunity has been tried in Sweden and it failed. The death toll there is ten times its neighbor Finland and other Scandinavian countries. It doesn't work. It's killing people. That is a policy of mass human sacrifice.

Do you favor sending the mask now to every American household?

One time involved a plan to have the U.S. Post Service mail a mask to every American household, but the White House stopped it.

The administration has turned masks into a partisan symbol, discouraging many Americans from wearing them.

Mr. Secretary, you stood by the President at the press conference and repeated false statistics about the therapy's effectiveness.

If 95 percent of Americans wear masks, we'll save roughly 96,000 American lives by the end of this year.

Encouraging every American to wear a mask. Now, the Director of the CDC Robert Redfield said that this is the most important, powerful public health tool that we have.