The remaining members tried to keep the session going, but things didn’t exactly go according to plan - when Rep. Soon, as members received text alerts warning them to shelter in place, security teams whisked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior officials out of the room. She’d seen on the news that protestors had stormed the Capitol, and wanted to know if he was OK. The session continued as danger mounted outside.Īs arguments proceeded, Raskin got an anxious text from Alyssa Milano, an actress and political organizer who had become a family friend. When he greeted his colleagues and thanked them for the “love and tenderness” they’d shown in the wake of Tommy’s death, he was given a bipartisan standing ovation. Tabitha and Hank watched from the House visitor’s galley as Raskin delivered his prepared remarks. “Dad, you’ve got to tone this down,” she chided him.Īfter the joint congressional session began, several House Republicans posed the anticipated objections. When he finished a draft, he handed it over to Tabitha, who immediately started crossing out some of his more fiery adjectives. Raskin spent his morning preparing the speeches he’d been asked to give in response to the probable objections. Ultimately, Tabitha and Raskin’s son-in-law, Hank, decided to accompany him. The process was supposed to be a formality, but with Republicans expected to object to the certification it was shaping up to be a real battle.
But Raskin felt he had to - this was the day that a joint congressional session would count and certify the 2020 Electoral College votes.
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6 was Raskin’s first full day at work after Tommy’s death, and his daughter Tabitha initially encouraged her father not to go in. Jamie Raskin writes of losing his son to suicide and living through the Jan.
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