US House, MD-8
Jamie Raskin
ON THE ISSUES
- Advocate for clean energy investments
- Voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant action Congress has ever taken to address climate change
- Earned an incredible 99% lifetime score on LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard
- Endorsed by LCV Action Fund
WHY THIS RACE MATTERS
- Ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary
- Holding this seat in Maryland will help win a pro-environmental majority in the House, making it easier to pass climate legislation at the federal level
CANDIDATE BACKGROUND
Representative Jamie Raskin is running for a sixth term to represent Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before taking office in January of 2017, he had been a professor of constitutional law and the First Amendment for a quarter-century at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he authored several books and launched the acclaimed Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. In 2006, he ran for State Senate in District 20.
In Congress, he has supported a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change while investing in alternative clean energy technologies like solar and wind power. Representative Raskin has earned a stellar lifetime score of 99% on LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard.
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