![]() ![]() It’s all part of his two-and-a-half-year saga that could easily double as a novella. ![]() “He was constantly texting me and checking on me,” Raskin said. Chip Roy of Texas, who was diagnosed with and beat back Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Among them is a fellow cancer survivor, Rep. It was driven by objective fact-finding,” he said.ĭespite the partisanship, Raskin said his lymphoma diagnosis had brought out a softer side of even the most ardent Trump-supporting Republicans in Congress. That stands in contrast to the sober nature of the January 6 hearings, which ended up making criminal referrals of Trump and others to the Justice Department, Raskin added.“The committee was completely bipartisan, with a Democratic chair and a Republican vice chair. But now we’re getting more sleep because they’re embarrassing themselves on a daily basis.” “We used to stay up late in the night preparing for these hearings. “It’s a wild goose chase that is both madcap and fanciful,” Raskin said. Emblematic of it all was Comer’s mid-May admission that he apparently lost track of his informant in an investigation into the Biden family. ![]() His committee battles with Republican Chairman James Comer of Kentucky have frequently become televised spectacles, particularly when it comes to the investigation of President Biden’s at-times wayward son, Hunter Biden. Raskin’s Oversight Committee role has been energizing amid some very hard times, he said.“My bout with lymphoma underscored for me this fight that we’re in, for democratic values and institutions in the country,” Raskin said. And more broadly, Trumpism and what he and others call its toxic stew of populist nationalism. Raskin, drawing on his decades as a law professor and public interest litigator on causes like Washington, D.C., statehood, has emerged as a go-to Democratic Trump critic. The congressman’s early grief, and later his cancer battle, came amid increasingly visible roles on Capitol Hill, representing a House district to which he was elected in 2016 when 14-year Democratic incumbent Chris Van Hollen won an open Senate seat. “I know that he would be happy to know how involved Sarah and I are in the lives of his sisters, and their significant others.” “Tommy was someone who always was focused on the group and the community, and other people’s experiences,” Raskin said. Feelings shared by his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, who was deputy treasury secretary in former President Barack Obama’s administration and previously a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and their two daughters, Hannah and Tabitha. The congressman’s memories of Tommy only intensify as Father’s Day approaches, on June 18. “Tommy, like many in his generation, was left very isolated and despondent. “In my book, I date the beginning of the darkness to COVID-19, and the plague conditions in the country, and the response to it,” Raskin said about Tommy, who had long battled depression. I felt Tommy with me from the beginning of this dark period,” Raskin said about his beloved late son, a second-year Harvard Law School student and graduate of Montgomery Blair High School and Amherst College. “I suppose I never felt I had any real choice than to go forward. We do not share data with third party vendors. Get Washington Jewish Week Digital Magazine by email and never miss our top stories ![]()
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