Press Releases
Washington, D.C. (April 26, 2023)—Below is Ranking Member Jamie Raskin's opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today's Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on "The Government Accountability Office's 2023 High Risk List."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) urged the House and Senate Armed Services Committees' leadership to include the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, which would give the D.C. mayor control over the D.C. National Guard, in the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The D.C. National Guard Home Rule Act passed the House as part of the fiscal year 2023 NDAA, but Republicans blocked it in the Senate.
Washington, D.C. (April 25, 2023)—Today, Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, and Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, issued the following statement after the Committees conducted a voluntary transcribed interview with United States Border Patrol Chief Sean McGoffin, Chief Patrol Agent for the Big Bend Sector:
Washington, D.C. (April 20, 2023)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led Committee Democrats in demanding that Committee Republicans conduct serious, fact-based oversight of the 20-year war in Afghanistan by examining the panoply of events that contributed to the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces across four presidential administrations, including under former President Trump.
Washington, D.C. (April 19, 2023)—Below is Ranking Member Gerald E.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, urging the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to initiate suspension and debarment proceedings against meatpacking company JBS USA (JBS), the U.S. subsidiary of J&F Investimentos S.A. (J&F), a Brazilian-owned investment company with a history of criminal misconduct, and each of its U.S. companies, including Pilgrim's Pride.
Washington, D.C. (April 19, 2023)—Below is Ranking Member Jamie Raskin's opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today's Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Washington, D.C. (April 18, 2023)—Today, Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D., Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, led Select Subcommittee Democrats in taking a forward-looking approach to strengthening our pandemic prevention and preparedness, getting to the bottom of the novel coronavirus's origins, and countering the Chinese Communist Party's threat to America's public health and national security.
Washington, D.C. (April 18, 2023)—Below is Vice Ranking Member Melanie Stansbury's opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today's Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs hearing on clean energy investments in communities across America.
Washington, D.C. (April 18, 2023)—Below is Ranking Member Robert Garcia's opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing on the resettlement of unaccompanied migrant children.