Jamie Raskin

Let's not confuse the public. Let's try to help the states to deliver in these atrocious circumstances brought to us by the President of the United States and his supporters.

It's amazing to me that the President, who knew that COVID-19 was, quote, 'deadly stuff' but deliberately suppressed the truth about it...

I'm pleased to hear that you are open to state and local funding in the next round of legislation that we do.

I hope you will pay attention to this bipartisan consensus that we need a substantial and meaningful investment in this coordinate part of the U.S. Government in the states and localities.

Partisanship is a reflection of a free society.

The whole history of disenfranchisement in our country, with poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, White primaries, and so on, would vindicate the accuracy and the passion of that ad.

We should stop spreading anxiety and disinformation about the elections.

President Trump called the post office a joke. Is it a joke?

I've got diabetic constituents who are waiting for insulin. I've got constituents with cancer waiting for chemo drugs to come in.

So, the GOP apparently has a strategy of sabotaging the Post Office, thereby creating all kinds of collateral damage for other people.

The democracy is on the ballot in 2020.

As Secretary Duncan observed, we're in this agonizing situation because of the miserable failure of the administration to develop an effective national strategy to defeat COVID-19.

If we really want our kids to go back to school safely, the single most important thing we can do has nothing to do with education at all, and that is defeat the virus.

So, federalism is on the side of the majority here. It's the administration that is defeating the values of federalism by trying to use money as a threat to force people to meet the will of the President.

We're asking them to solve problems that the Federal Government has been making worse.

I'm amazed that our distinguished colleague, Mr. Green, rails against the Federal threat to local decisionmaking here when it is precisely President Trump who is trying to dictate to state and local governments.

What infuriates me about what is happening today is that it's an unforced error.

This administration is doing everything it can to undo a lot of the progress by reversing dozens of air pollution regulations that we have put in place at the EPA.

Is there something illogical or strange about trying to make progress on climate change with the same solutions we're using to try to reduce air pollution?

I remember when critics of the climate change consensus in the scientific community used to deny the existence and reality of climate change.

Agencies required to implement the data center consolidation reported in total $4.7 billion in cost savings from Fiscal Year 2012 through 2019.

Will you commit to working with the subcommittee to track data centers in ways that are consistent with the law and GAO's recommendations to improve cybersecurity and maximize the saving of tax dollars?

OMB's changes to the new guidance no longer allowed the subcommittee and GAO to evaluate agency progress toward data center optimization and consolidation.

In June of last year, the day before the FITARA 8.0 hearing, OMB issued guidance which revised and narrowed the definition of a data center.

And if you're trying to still figure out why the administration and our Republican colleagues cannot formulate a plan of action, look no further than the disgraceful diversions and distractions of some of our colleagues today.