Jamie Raskin

I believe, based on what I've seen, that the Trump Hotel and President Trump are in violation of the lease...

You hold Federal office in America, it's not a money-making operation.

Our job is to make sure that the Constitution is being respected, and the rule of law.

It is an absolute constitutional imperative for us to do our jobs, having taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

If this body has the power to impeach the President, which we do, we have, by definition, all of the subsidiary power to get any information that we need in order to investigate the President.

We are the lawmaking branch of government. We represent the people. The President's job is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not thwarted, not circumvented, not violated.

The purpose of the Foreign Emoluments Clause was to guarantee the independence of the President so he would be zealously devoted to the American people.

The American people have a right to know how much is being spent there.

It is indeed up to us to determine what we're going to legislate about, and so it's up to us to determine what information we're going to get.

Congress has a broad robust and comprehensive power that's been recognized by the Supreme Court and all the courts to investigate, and that is essential to representative democracy.

The President doesn't have the power to impeach Congress. We have the power to impeach the President.

This is a lease that relates to the U.S. Government and it relates to the Constitutional powers of Congress.

So everybody has a duty to present documents and witnesses that are being requested by Congress.

The purpose of the Domestic Emoluments Clause was to say that the President has one way to make money off of his tenure as President, which is his salary.

The commonsense perception of this is simply that the President as President of the United States, who oversees GSA, is acting as the landlord.

Taxpayers funded massive payments to the Trump properties such as the Trump Hotel in D.C.

And so that's why we're very concerned to get as much information from the GSA about whatever you know and whatever you can find out about foreign governments using the Trump Hotel for business because of the President's continuing…

Those who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

The President should fire Kellyanne Conway.

Her contemptuous defiance of your board and you, as the director of it, is unacceptable and intolerable.

I believe that the rule states that we cannot disparage and defame other Members of Congress.

If a false statement has been made at the hearing about a fellow Member of Congress, can it be corrected?

It's important to my constituents in Maryland, because I have tens of thousands of Federal employees too.

I think Mr. Kerner had given Ms. Conway multiple opportunities to come in, precisely to have a discussion and a correction about her conduct.

I think you make an astute point. The question is whether she's operating in an official capacity representing the government or not.