Jamie Raskin

The Hatch Act has been twice challenged in the Supreme Court by unions for working people saying we should be able to express ourselves politically at work.

Did President Trump respond in any way to discipline this employee when tens of thousands of my employees have been told they can't even wear a button to work if it says resist, which is a word in the English language, right?

I want to ask you about the Hatch Act, because I've got 65,000 constituents who are Federal employees.

If you act in contempt of the American people and Congress, we will find you in contempt.

Her contemptuous defiance of this committee is unacceptable.

Does it send the message that there's one standard that applies to people who are in President Trump's favor and a different standard that applies to millions of Federal employees who are subject to the requirements of the Hatch Act?

Ms. Conway seemed to ridicule the enforcement of the Hatch Act, as the chairman stated.

But in January 2018, you started an investigation of Ms. Conway for making partisan statements strongly supporting Republican U.S. Senate candidate and accused child molester Roy Moore.

She's allowed to say whatever she wants on the weekend and the evening.

If we allow them to go ahead and impose another disenfranchising mechanism, and they finally get to court 6 months or 8 months or 12 months later, it is too late to do anything.

The second Reconstruction, which was the modern civil rights movement, targeted all of those practices with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Disenfranchisement used to be relatively simple. In the first century, the law simply said that African Americans couldn't vote.

The States did not create the Union. We, the people, created the Union in the Constitution.

I look forward to working with the gentlewoman to secure funding for projects like the one in my district. I urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on…

Woman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 368, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by…

The House of Representatives has not been hacked, at least yet, directly by the GRU and by the agents of Vladimir Putin.

The Constitution says in the Guarantee Clause that Congress must guarantee to every State a republican form of government.

This legislation is of essential importance to the American people, and I rise in opposition to the gentleman from Illinois's amendment.

I have always thought that the Congressional Research Service is an enormous asset to our work in Congress and an international marvel.

Thanks to all of our witnesses.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 63, line 13, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)''. Page 134, line 20, after…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

I am especially delighted, after hearing the incredibly powerful and poignant testimony of our witnesses today, that the word 'permanent' is in there.

This body has the ability to hold him accountable.

We can never allow prosecutors to second-guess the decisions of Presidents.