Candidate · U.S. House, District 8
Jamie Raskin
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- U.S. Representative, Maryland's 8th Congressional District (since 2017)
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative; law professor
- Lives in
- Montgomery County
Background
- Graduate of Harvard College (1983) and Harvard Law School (1987); former editor of the Harvard Law Review. source: raskin.house.gov
- Three-term Maryland State Senator for District 20, first elected in 2006; elected Senate Majority Whip by colleagues. source: raskin.house.gov
- First elected to Congress in 2016; serving a fifth term. source: raskin.house.gov
- Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee in the 119th Congress; served on the January 6th Select Committee. source: raskin.house.gov
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