Jamie Raskin

In other words, because we said that it should go to everyone who filed taxes, they thought it should go to people who had died.

That's just shocking. How did that happen?

My office, and I'm sure my colleagues' offices, are just besieged with people who desperately need this money.

Would you agree that these populations are especially vulnerable during a pandemic and a recession and are likely in need of this Federal support?

Fact: Arizona, as of yesterday, had more than 60,000 cases, 1,467 deaths, and the infection continues to spiral out of control.

Fact: Florida just reported 10,000 new coronavirus infections in two days.

Fact: Hospitalizations in Texas are up more than 215 percent since Memorial Day.

Fact: More than 2.4 million cases of infection among our people.

Fact: 124,415 deaths in the United States from COVID-19.

All of the first responders are saying: Save us from this nightmare, wear your mask.

It doesn't cost us anything. Why would we not do that?

I really wish, Mr. Chairman, we could work this out pursuant to your suggestion, following the exact instructions of the Capitol physician.

We've called on OSHA to do more.

OSHA has been completely AWOL during this pandemic when workers' lives are literally on the line.

We've got to do everything in our power to keep government going.

One thing that's not addressed in the memo is the real glaring fault of this, which is that President Trump in January, in February, in March and in April, on 37 different occasions praised China.

I also want to express my condolences to the families of 117,832 Americans that we've lost in the last four months of this nightmare.

Turns out there's a whole article about it in Politico. I'm going to ask for unanimous consent at the end of the meeting to introduce it.

There is nothing in this bill that should objectionable to anyone who cares about public safety truly, who cares about antidiscrimination and pledges themselves to it, who cares about the rule of law, and who cares about this country, and…

Every Member of this body has to take responsibility for what is happening in this country.

The justice Act of 2020 reaffirms the sanctity of life.

This legislation that we're looking at today, the Justice in Policing Act, will ban chokeholds, strangleholds, no-knock warrants, racial and ethnic profiling.

This civil rights movement, this Second Reconstruction, also faced a violent backlash.

The whole point of the social contract is that we'll be safer inside of it rather than outside of it, in the State of nature, State of war.

He called for transformative solutions for systemic change.