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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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Jul 30, 2020

Blaming other countries is not a plan. Blaming China is not a plan.

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Jul 30, 2020

A stack of paper is not a plan. A large and unwieldy stack of paper is not a plan.

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Jul 30, 2020

We've got 4.4 million cases. We lead the world in case count. We lead the world in death count.

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Jul 30, 2020

So, what is the difference? Why are all of the other countries defeating the disease and we're not?

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Jul 30, 2020

The outbreak was going to be limited to Democratic states

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Jul 30, 2020

I thank both you and Dr. Fauci for restating the absolute imperative importance of everybody wearing their masks.

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Jul 30, 2020

I am calling for the administration to finally give America a comprehensive national plan that prioritizes science over politics.

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Jul 30, 2020

The result of these decisions is that the virus has continued to rage out of control.

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Jul 30, 2020

Without widely available rapid testing, it is nearly impossible to control the spread of the virus.

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Jul 30, 2020

The end of it was essentially, do we need to stop these disgraceful attacks on public health officials?

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Jul 30, 2020

Would you agree with me that the critical difference is either the presence or the absence of social cohesion and political leadership to actually develop a plan, execute it, and stick to it?

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Jul 30, 2020

The administration has failed on testing.

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Jul 28, 2020

The census has counted all persons, right, and the administration's attempt to try to impose a citizenship question even was invalidated by a Supreme Court

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Jul 28, 2020

If the president's new interpretation is pasted onto the census, this will be a radical departure from everything that we have done for more than two centuries

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Jul 28, 2020

We want to make sure, one, that all of our enumerators are properly taken care of, and two, the public knows that so that no one is afraid to interact with them.

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Jul 28, 2020

It is not only unrooted in the text of the Constitution an impractical but it is a danger to having the real census counted and completed.

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Jul 28, 2020

There seemed to be this false equation between voting and citizenship.

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Jul 28, 2020

The president's proposal is a radical break from history and a radical break from the text of the Constitution.

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Jul 28, 2020

You have really been an outspoken and just unabashed champion of the census at every turn in this Congress

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Jul 28, 2020

What we are getting, really, from the administration is a whole series of attacks on the election.

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Jul 28, 2020

Well, what troubles me is just what one businesswoman told me when I was looking at this, which is, she said, I pay around 25 percent of my income to Uncle Sam, to the government, and then I pay 30 percent of my income to Apple.

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Jul 28, 2020

The removal of Donald Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., from Twitter, their tweets, was all about their spreading disinformation.

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Jul 28, 2020

I don't understand just the endless whining about how Facebook or Twitter, or Facebook and Twitter, are somehow discriminating against conservatives.

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Jul 28, 2020

We want to make sure that the extraordinary power and wealth that you've been able to amass is not used against the interests of democracy and human rights around the world.

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Jul 28, 2020

In the 19th century, we had the robber barons. In the 21st century, we've got the cyber barons.

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