Adam Schiff was ousted from his plum House perch and is seeking a Senate seat. Jamie Raskin is betting on the lower chamber.
“It really depends on where you are in the course of your service in the House, whether there’s a greater leadership opportunity in the Senate or in the House,” Schiff said in a brief interview, recalling a conversation he’d had with Raskin about whether the Marylander should run for Senate.
Jamie Raskin is a widely liked lawmaker who works across the aisle and received an outpouring of sympathy amid his battle with cancer and a personal family tragedy. | Francis Chung/POLITICO “I was encouraging my friend Jamie to really seriously think about [the] Senate,” she said. On the other side of the debate, Rep. Pete Aguilar , who’d been part of the Jan. 6 select committee with Raskin and is now a member of Democratic leadership, said he was “thankful” for Raskin’s decision to stay in the House.
Raskin’s decision to run for reelection positions him to pick up the powerful Oversight Committee gavel if Democrats can swing the House their way in 2024. A former constitutional lawyer, he’d leapfrogged over more senior colleagues when he won the top Democratic spot on the panel this year. Since then, he’s drawn praise from other Democrats for elevating younger, liberal colleagues like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the committee.
“Adam has been in the House a lot longer than me,” Raskin said.” I just got reelected to my fourth term … so he was chair of a committee already, and then that ended with Intelligence, whereas I’m just on the verge of becoming chair next year when the Democrats do take the House back in 2024.”
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