May 16Rep. Raskin’s 2022 Congressional Art Competition Virtual GalleryEach spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Now in its 41st year, more than 650,000 high school students have participated since the competition’s inception in 1982. The winner of the…17 min read
Feb 17The Olympics, Kunchok Tsephel and China’s Human Rights Race to the BottomAll over the globe, world-class athletes and sports fans are tuning in to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. But do you know who is not celebrating right now? China’s political prisoners. Shortly after the 2008 Summer Olympics took place in Beijing, Chinese police arrested a gifted Tibetan writer…2 min read
Jun 30, 2021Walt Whitman High School Commencement AddressRemarks Prepared for Delivery by Congressman Jamie Raskin June 11, 2021 To Dr. Dodd, Ms. O’ Neill, Parents, Grandparents, Uncles and Aunts, Brothers and Sisters, Teachers and Staff and Coaches, and, above all, to the stupefying, unbelievably amazing Walt Whitman Graduating Class of 2021: I gave a commencement address last…12 min read
May 5, 2021Rep. Raskin’s 2021 Congressional Art Competition Virtual GalleryEach spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Now in its 40th year, more than 650,000 high school students have participated since the competition’s inception in 1982. The winner of the…Art16 min read
Jan 4, 2021Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy RaskinTAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was born to ecstatic parents who saw him enter the world like a blue-eyed cherub, a little angel. Tommy grew…9 min read
Dec 30, 2020Recognizing Our 2020 Local HeroesThis year, as the Coronavirus hit our community and our nation, I launched a weekly video series featuring Marylanders in the 8th District who are acting creatively and bravely to help our community through the crisis. …Maryland12 min read
Sep 1, 2020MD-08 Homemade Face Mask Competition Virtual GalleryThrilled to announce the winner, by popular response, of our MD-08 Homemade Mask Competition: Walt Whitman High School Senior Grace McGuire! Our second place winner is Brigitta Mullican of Rockville and our third place winner is Peihan Orestes of Kensington — check out their creative masks! Scroll to view our virtual gallery of all the mask entries, each one a testament to the ingenuity and artistry of the mask-maker.4 min read
Apr 28, 20202020 Congressional Art Competition Virtual GalleryThrilled to announce the 2020 winner of the Congressional Art Competition in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District: Mastery by Chunlin An of Walt Whitman High School! We also have 17 second-place honorees: Alex Li (Alone); Aurea Sellmeyer (Time); Devon Elliot (Yellowstone Pen and Ink Landscape); Gisselle Arias (Lost in Sound); Grace…Art8 min read
Jan 4, 2020Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin on The Killing of Maj.Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin on The Killing of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and the Dangers of War with Iran January 4, 2020 “The United States of America is a constitutional democracy. We must be governed by the rule of law and formal governmental deliberation or we will be governed…3 min read
Jun 5, 2018Albert Einstein High School CommencementRemarks Prepared for Delivery by Congressman Jamie Raskin June 5, 2018 Principal Fernandez, Superintendent Smith, President Durso, Principal Sosik, Principal Tsonis, Principal Dimmick, Faculty and Staff, Coaches, Parents and Grandparents, Uncles and Aunts, Friends, Big Brothers and Little Sisters, Big Sisters and Little Brothers, and above all, the Einstein graduating…Education10 min read
