Jamie Raskin

When you're dead, you're dead.

This cannot be what Congress intended. And we should say so. Loudly.

I was proud to introduce H.R. 2909, the bipartisan and bicameral Promoting Grid Storage Act.

To best address the climate crisis, I'd urge this committee to unleash the nerds.

Client says thank you for what you do.

You are loved, they're in our corner, sleep well tonight, and you have friends in high places.

We are in total agreement with you there.

So there are hundreds of thousands of people who, in essence, are being told they are legally obligated to answer the citizenship question right now.

To combat today's vaping epidemic, I've introduced bipartisan and bicameral legislation to crack down on kid-friendly e-cigarette flavors.

Feels like a scare tactic.

What we need to take action is at the Federal level immediately.

These companies have evaded responsibility for far too long already and we are finally going to start holding them accountable.

What I do have a problem with is when these corporations place their own bottom lines ahead of Americans' health.

In America, no person is so high as to be above the law.

Although the move to impose the citizenship question has been rejected by the courts as arbitrary and capricious, I fear that it may still be endangering an accurate count in 2020.

Now that the Administration has been forced to stand down by Congress and by the Supreme Court the Bureau must devote all available resources to repairing the damage of this effort, getting us back on track, and conducting a complete and…

Some communities, including communities of immigrants and people of color, are chronically under-counted.

Congress waited for too long to start protecting children from cigarettes. History is now repeating itself with e-cigarettes.

Make no mistake. JUUL, now partnered with tobacco giant, Altria, is driving this epidemic even as they come before this committee and pose for holy pictures.

Is that a proper basis upon which to remove children from their parents?

Do you think that was appropriate?

The policy of separating children from their parents has shocked the conscience of our Nation

Can you make that available to us?

I am sure the gentleman was not, unfortunately, just because of the press of time.

Launching into my time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee). (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)