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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 15, 2019

According to data produced by Rand Fishkin. Google controls over 90 percent of the search engine market in the United States.

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Jul 15, 2019

I also want to just salute everybody involved in protecting us. The terrible incident that took place at the baseball game reminds us that all of us are obviously vulnerable to these kinds of attacks.

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Jul 11, 2019

This President spent 270 days at Trump-owned properties. Think about that for a second. What if Barack Obama had not only taken the press corps and the government with him to Martha's Vineyard, but made everybody stay at the Obama Hotel…

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Jul 11, 2019

It's not just a legal question. It's a political question because it's invested with article I, with Congress.

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Jul 11, 2019

I think at least it's constitutionally important to note that it's Congress that has the power to impeach everybody else

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Jul 11, 2019

All legislative powers are vested in the Congress of the United States.

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Jul 11, 2019

I'm very proud to be a member of your committee with all the extraordinary work we did this week to open America's eyes to what's going on in the name of every American citizen at the border.

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Jul 11, 2019

Is there anyone on the panel who believes it is the right policy to separate children from their parents in order to deter other people from coming to the United States?

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Jul 10, 2019

I also want to salute Ms. Pressley for having the idea for this excellent and important panel discussion.

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Jul 9, 2019

I would not even want to win that way.

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Jul 9, 2019

I remember that. I was in Congress then, and they had voted 69 different times to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety.

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Jul 9, 2019

Your story has broken the heart of America, but your courage gives us a second chance to get it right.

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Jul 9, 2019

We should end unnecessary detention. We should move to a case management system, which DHS itself prototyped and then ended in 2017, very successfully.

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Jul 9, 2019

Violent crime such as murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault is common.

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Jul 9, 2019

The American people are up in arms about reports, both from the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security and the media and various human rights groups, about the dangerous overcrowding, spreading infections, influenza…

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Jul 9, 2019

Our country is a Nation of immigrants. Except for the descendants of slaves and the Native Americans, all of us are here as immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.

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Jun 26, 2019

I just want to say that OPM made a very significant decision, essentially, to dismantle itself or to dissolve itself without first obtaining any formal opinion as to the legality of this decision.

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Jun 26, 2019

All right. Mr. Billy, so if I'm reading the last several responses correctly together, there was no detailed legal analysis--or there was no legal analysis at all done of the proposed merger before it was accomplished.

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Jun 26, 2019

So those were all the policy considerations you looked at. But why is the legal authority redacted in the documents that OPM provided yesterday?

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Jun 26, 2019

Well, why is the GSA making arguments, that are also being advanced by the President's personal attorneys, that we can't obtain information about a government lease, a very valuable property which is controlled, owned by the U.S…

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Jun 26, 2019

But why does that give you the authority to redact that?

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Jun 26, 2019

I hope that all of the witnesses heard a very strong bipartisan sense that our ability to get documents is essential to our lawmaking function.

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Jun 26, 2019

There was no detailed legal analysis--or there was no legal analysis at all done of the proposed merger before it was accomplished.

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Jun 26, 2019

There is nothing illegitimate about the representatives of the people obtaining documents that go to our constitutional duty.

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