Tag Archives: Jamie Raskin

The Washington Examiner reports: House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent a letter to Chairman James Comer (R-KY) calling on him to compel Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law, to produce documents related to his business ventures in Saudi Arabia. Last June, when Democrats controlled the House, the Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Kushner and his business …

The Hill reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) announced Friday that he would not run for outgoing Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-Md.) open seat in 2024, instead opting to run for reelection. “At this moment, I believe the best way for me to make the greatest difference in American politics in 2024 and beyond is this: to run for reelection to the …

Time Magazine reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, will spend the rest of the month deciding whether he will run for U.S. Senate, in what is already shaping up to be a crowded primary battle to replace outgoing Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin. “After five months of chemo, I am taking the month of May to seriously investigate the 2024 …

Huddle reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma last December, had good news during a talk with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “The doctors tell me that the chemotherapy has extinguished the cancer cells, at least as far as they can tell,” he said. “I’m hanging in there and I’m going to make it …

Congress Minutes reports: House Oversight Chair James Comer has begun subpoenaing banks for records as part of his investigation into Hunter Biden and the Biden family, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) disclosed in a letter to the Kentucky Republican. It’s the first known subpoena of a financial institution by Comer as he conducts a sweeping investigation into Hunter Biden, President Joe …

The Washington Post reports: A senior Democrat on Tuesday renewed a request to Jared Kushner for documents outlining how the former White House official received $2 billion from a Saudi investment fund, writing that Kushner had failed to respond to an earlier inquiry and raising new questions about whether he had “improperly traded” on his government work to benefit his …

Via press release from Rep. Jamie Raskin: After several days of tests, I have been diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma, which is a serious but curable form of cancer. I am about to embark on a course of chemo-immunotherapy on an outpatient basis at Med Star Georgetown University Hospital and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prognosis for most people …

Congress Minutes reports: House Democrats voted Thursday to give Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) the party’s top spot on the Oversight Committee starting in January. Because Democrats lost control of the House, Raskin will be the panel’s ranking member. But his win will put him at the forefront of the party’s day-in, day-out response to House GOP investigations. His game plan: …

“I can’t enter into specific details about this testimony. But I will tell you that from everything we’ve learned, we know that the former president was incensed and enraged when he was not being taken to the Capitol. “He was adamant that he be able to join the mob and approach and enter the Capitol with them. Again, everything that …

The Hill reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Sunday that President Biden was “right to sound the alarm” about former President Trump and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party. “Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way. And two, they embrace political violence,” …

“Well, you know, in a time of absolutely scandalous betrayal of people’s oaths of office and crimes being committed all over the place, somebody who does their job and sticks to the law will stand out as a hero on that day. And I think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) raised the prospect on Monday that Steve Bannon would be sentenced to jail if he refused to testify before the House committee investigating Jan 6. “He wasn’t working for the executive branch,” Raskin observed. “So even if you assume hypothetically that Donald Trump has some kind of executive privilege, which is extremely dubious in …

Forbes reports: Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) said during a fiery back-and-forth in a House committee hearing on Tuesday that he stands by comments comparing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to a “normal tourist visit” and his vote against congressional gold medals for law enforcement that responded to the attack, on the same day that four officers told …

Politico reports: The House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into the ballot review being run by the Republican-controlled state Senate in Arizona, the committee announced on Wednesday. “Americans’ right to vote is protected by the Constitution and is the cornerstone of our democratic system of government,” Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who helms the …

NBC News reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who served as the lead impeachment manager in former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, said Sunday that Democrats had “no regrets at all” despite Trump’s acquittal. NBC’s Chuck Todd asked if, in hindsight, Raskin believed Democrats could have secured more Republican votes by adding a dereliction-of-duty article. “[W]e have no regrets at all. …