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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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Dec 2, 2020

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

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Dec 2, 2020

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.

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Oct 31, 2020

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

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Oct 6, 2020

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.

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Oct 6, 2020

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.

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Oct 5, 2020

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.

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Oct 5, 2020

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.

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Oct 5, 2020

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.

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Oct 1, 2020

We are the world's leader in absolute case count and absolute death count, and we are the world's leader, unfortunately, in COVID denialism and conspiracy theory.

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Oct 1, 2020

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

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Oct 1, 2020

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.

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Oct 1, 2020

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

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Oct 1, 2020

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

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Oct 1, 2020

I often share with the public that I was around during the polio vaccine, and I remember political decisions that were made for that vaccine.

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Oct 1, 2020

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

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Oct 1, 2020

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.

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Oct 1, 2020

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.

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Oct 1, 2020

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to add my thoughts for swift and complete recovery to the President, the First Lady, and the other 43,752 people who contracted COVID-19 yesterday.

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Oct 1, 2020

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

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Oct 1, 2020

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.

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Sep 30, 2020

According to the non-partisan CBO, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with drug companies could lower spending on brand name drugs by about $456 billion.

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Sep 30, 2020

At a certain point earlier in this Congress I looked at the Supreme Court precedent governing contempt of Congress, going back to Anderson v. Dunn.

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Sep 30, 2020

We need to pass the legislation that Elijah Cummings championed and that President Trump used to support before he broke his campaign pledges.

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Sep 30, 2020

Our system is the opposite of a free market. It lets the drug companies increase their prices over and over and over again.

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Sep 30, 2020

I just think that these NDC blocks were tremendously profitable for Novartis, as they have been for other companies, and the cost is not paid by the company. It is paid by the patients, it is paid by Medicare, and all of us through…

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