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Senate Chair, Montgomery County Delegation, 2011-14 (vice-chair, 2008-11). Member, National Conference of State Legislatures (state coordinator, legislators' back-to-school program, 2007-16). Member, Public Safety and Policing Work Group, 2015-16. Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, 2015-16.
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Chair, Senate Special Committee on Ethics Reform, 2012-13. Co-Chair, Work Group to Review Disclosure Requirements of the Public Ethics Law, 2012-13. Member, Task Force to Study Court Decision regarding Pit Bulls, 2012. Member, Judicial Proceedings Committee, 2007-16 Joint Committee on the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, 2007-16 Joint Committee on Federal Relations, 2007-16 Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics, 2007-16 (senate chair, 2015-16). Member of Senate, representing District 20 (Montomgery County), Januto November 10, 2016. Vice-Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus, 2017. Vice-Chair, House Democracy Reform Task Force, 2017. Member, House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, 2017. Senior Whip, House Democratic Caucus, 2017. Member, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, 2017-19 (intergovernmental affairs subcommittee, 2017-18 interior, energy & environment subcommittee, 2017-18). Member, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, 2017-19. Member, Rules Committee, 2019- (chair, expedited procedures subcommittee, 2019-) House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, 2020. Vice-Chair, House Administration Committee, 2019- (member, 2017-18 joint committee on printing, 2017-18). Member, Judiciary Committee, 2017- (constitution & civil justice subcommittee, 2017-18 crime, terrorism, homeland security & investigation subcommittee, 2017-18 immigration & border security subcommittee, 2017-18 antitrust, commercial, & administrative law subcommittee, 2019- vice-chair, constitution, civil rights, & civil liberties subcommittee, 2019-) Oversight and Reform Committee, 2019- (government operations subcommittee, 2019- chair, civil rights & civil liberties subcommittee, 2019-). House of Representatives since January 3, 2017. Representative, 8th Congressional District (parts of Carroll, Frederick & Montgomery counties), Maryland.Ģ242 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515ĥ1 Monroe St., Suite 503, Rockville, MD 20850 Representative, Maryland MARYLAND & THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Listen above via Floyd Abrams Speaking Freely.Jamin B. “But the NRA thrives off of the dogma that you - they can’t allow one bit of regulation, no matter how reasonable otherwise, you know, everybody’s guns are gonna be confiscated. Heller, said the rights of the Second Amendment were not unlimited, “the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” Scalia, in his 2008 Supreme Court decision for the case of District of Columbia v. He continued, “I want them to read Justice (Antonin) Scalia’s opinion in the Heller decision, which says that the Second Amendment accepts reasonable gun safety regulation in pursuit of the public safety.” I want them to read the Second Amendment.” “They get up and they say, you know, ‘Raskin just wants to repeal the Second Amendment.’ I don’t want them to repeal the Second Amendment. “What we’re getting from our colleagues across the aisle is just repetition of dogmas about the Second Amendment that are refuted, um, by the text of the Constitution,” Raskin proclaimed. Raskin blamed the slow process on Republicans who, in his eyes, struggle to understand the Second Amendment.
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“I mean, we’ve been treated to these bloody spectacles of mass shootings and massacres of school children, grocery shoppers, people in churches, people in synagogues, we need to act, we need to take it seriously.” “We’re hoping that this will be, you know, one of the final things that we do before we break for the August recess,” Raskin said. The conversation with Abrams, the father of Mediaite founder Dan Abrams, took place right before Friday’s successful vote. Speaking with Floyd Abrams on the Wednesday edition of his podcast Speaking Freely, Raskin detailed his journey with the assault weapons ban that passed the House last Friday. Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) believes the Republicans are getting the Second Amendment completely wrong.