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

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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