The previous Thursday, after preparing a breakfast smoothie, he had gone to the room where his 25-year-old son, Tommy, was staying while remotely attending Harvard Law School and had found him dead, a victim of suicide. Raskin, a Democrat who represents Maryland’s Eighth District, was entering his fifth year in Congress, having first been elected on the same night as Donald Trump.
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Despite the FBI's accommodation, Comer plans to move with forward with the contempt process, arguing it is not enough to satisfy the terms of his subpoena.In the history of workweeks that start badly, few can compete with the one Representative Jamie Raskin began on January 6, 2021, his first full morning back in the Capitol since discovering the corpse of his son six days before. On Monday, the Maryland Democrat and his GOP counterpart on the Oversight panel, Chairman James Comer, are expected to review an internal FBI document that some Republicans claim will shed light on an allegation that, as vice president, Joe Biden was involved in a criminal scheme with a foreign national.Ĭomer subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray for the document last month and has since said he plans to begin proceedings to hold Wray in contempt of Congress for failing to turn it over to the committee. Raskin, who disclosed a cancer diagnosis in December, said he has gotten a "clean bill of health" and is in remission following his treatment and "waiting for my hair and my eyelashes and everything to come back." "It's totally based on the experience I have had trying to defend our democracy and our freedom and the Bill of Rights against the Trump movement, which I think is such a danger."
"We have got awesome political leaders in Maryland, and I would not run against anybody else," Raskin said.
I have talked to all of my colleagues about it." Asked by Bash if that would affect his decision to run, Raskin said: "Steny Hoyer is my friend, and so I have talked to him. David Trone, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando.įormer House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, the senior member of the Maryland congressional delegation, endorsed Alsobrooks last week. The field of Democrats looking to succeed him in deep-blue Maryland already includes US Rep. "I'm hoping, before the Fourth of July, I will have an answer for everybody," said Raskin.Ĭardin announced last month that he would not seek reelection in 2024 after three terms in the Senate. A lot of people are encouraging me to check it out." But, as some of my House colleagues have pointed out, these Senate seats only open up every 25 or 30 years. "I love the House of Representatives, I love the people I serve with, and I love being in the People's House. "I have not decided," Raskin told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" when asked if he would seek the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said Sunday that he is "seriously considering" a bid for Senate and expects to announce a decision before July 4.
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