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Jamie Raskin

Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district.

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I picked a helluva time for take your daughter to work day, after an extremely long and dreadful day I was able to send Tabitha and Hank home after 9:30 or 10 p.m. I hugged them and said to Tabitha,' I promise it wouldn't be like this the next time you come to the Capitol.' And she said,' Dad there isn't gon na be a next time.'.

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Found on CNN 13 hours ago Top News

Tommy left us a note, he didn't have anything in there about take some time off.

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Found on CNN 13 hours ago Top News

It's a solemn, awesome ability.

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Found on CNN 13 hours ago Top News

I was carrying Tommy in my heart the entire time.

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Found on CNN 13 hours ago Top News

I don't think anybody would seriously argue that we should establish a precedent where every president on the way out the door has two weeks or three weeks or four weeks to try to incite an armed insurrection against the union, this was the most serious presidential crime in the history of the United States of America.

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Found on FOX News 8 days ago Latest Headlines

I haven’t spoken to [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]today about this. Look, I know that everybody wants to focus on trial tactics and strategy and so on. I want people to focus on the solemnity and the gravity of these events.

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Found on FOX News 8 days ago Latest Headlines

We're putting together a trial plan, which is designed to get the truth of all of these events out, obviously, we're not going to be able to tell everyone's story, but we are going to be able to tell the story of this attack on United States and all of the events that led up to it.

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Found on CNN 8 days ago Top News

Today we’re looking at Section 4, which we are asking the Vice President to invoke by activating and mobilizing the Cabinet to declare what is patently obvious to a horrified and anxious nation : the President is not even minimally discharging the basic duties of his office, i do n’t think there is a reasonable person in the country with his or her eyes open who does n’t understand that the President was hell-bent on trying to challenge, undermine, and overturn the result of the election in all of the events leading up to January 6th, and on January 6th.

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Found on FOX News 13 days ago Politics

This is a technical part of our investigation, we want to know exactly how the president translated his political objective to shake down the Ukrainian government for the favors he wanted (into) the budget process.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We're going to move to the public phase of the investigation because America needs to hear from these witnesses themselves, the president is actively obstructing our investigation by trying to blockade the witnesses. That in itself becomes evidence of obstruction.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

People understand what it means for The President to be spending millions of dollars in federal government tax dollars at The President own business properties.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We're in the middle of looking at a whole set of unprecedented lawless activities by the White House. And it's not that this is disconnected from it, it's relevant to it. I mean, judicial corruption contaminates everything. So this is relevant and we should get the information that we can, but we also have limited resources.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Dealing with the Trump administration is like a video game where all of the monsters are flying at you 60 miles an hour. And so people have to deal with them as they come, and we have to do our best to sort it out and prioritize our fact-finding investigations.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This is a great victory for the truth and for the possibility of justice in the country, because America finally got to see what Special Counsel Mueller was talking about.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Having somebody talking about what happened from a personal perspective will be a dramatic debut for the committee.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I am very satisfied that things are moving in the right direction, and I think the American people are getting increasingly educated and engaged about the lawlessness of the president.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I am very satisfied that things are moving in the right direction.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

The rationale for empowering the committees to hold people in contempt is we will be able to save floor time for prescription drug reform and health care and the Equality Act and the Dream Act, so we will be able to both play offense on public policy while we're defending the Constitution.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

There are these dramatic episodes of presidential attempts to interfere with the Mueller investigation, and I think people would like to hear from a number of officials involved. White House counsel McGahn jumps out as an important witness.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

The Constitution calls for impeachment in cases of bribery, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors, so the legal case should indeed be compelling, the evidence should be overwhelming and the politics should be bipartisan. He may not be worth it but of course that's not the standard. The country is certainly worth it if The Constitution and the public interest demand it.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think it's been a wonderful transition to see someone go from being a full-time activist to being a legislator and an activist.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It says that no elected official, either member of Congress or the President of the United States, can accept a gift, an emolument or any payment at all from a foreign government.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

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