Jamie Raskin — profile dossier

Pandemic-program role: Member, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Institution — office: U.S. House · Maryland 8th District · Type: elected official / oversight member
Tenure (relief-relevant): First elected to Congress in 2016; recorded at Select Subcommittee pandemic-relief hearings from September 2020 through June 2022.

Identity and role

Jamin "Jamie" Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, represents Maryland's 8th Congressional District. His official House biography states that he was first elected in 2016, was "sworn into his fifth Term at the start of the 119th Congress on January 6, 2025," and serves as "Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 119th Congress." It records three terms in the Maryland State Senate, where colleagues selected him as Senate Majority Whip, before his election to Congress, and degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.¹

In the 116th and 117th Congresses he sat on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by James Clyburn. The front matter of the subcommittee's printed hearing records lists him among its members.²³

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

September 1, 2020: hearing with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. The subcommittee's attendance roster records Raskin present at the hearing printed as "Hearing with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin — The Trump Administration's Response to the Economic Crisis" (Serial No. 116-114).⁴² In his first round of questions he asked Mnuchin about the Postal Service and the selection of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.² In a later round he questioned Mnuchin on aid to state and local governments, telling him: "your department published a report saying that the states had only spent 25 percent of the $150 billion that we have in the coronavirus relief fund that was set up for the state and locals."²

March 25, 2021: Select Subcommittee hearing on small-business relief fraud. The subcommittee noticed the hearing under the title "Lowering the Guardrails: How the Trump Administration Failed to Prevent Billions in Pandemic Small Business Fraud", the title printed on the attendance roster⁵ and on the majority staff memorandum circulated to members that day.⁶ The Government Publishing Office printed the record under the title "Rooting Out Fraud in Small-Business Relief Programs" (Serial No. 117-12).⁷ The staff memorandum describes "new evidence obtained by the Select Subcommittee regarding the scope of fraud in the Small Business Administration's (SBA's) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program."⁶ The roster records Raskin present.⁵

At that hearing Raskin thanked the chair "for calling this very important hearing about more than $80 billion lost in fraud" in the relief programs, and asked PRAC Chair Michael Horowitz whether measuring fraud as a small percentage of the total was the right way to look at it. Horowitz answered that the accountability community asks "could there have been steps taken that would have reduced the fraud to a greater degree, or the risks to a greater degree?"⁷ Raskin then described constituents whose identities had been used to obtain SBA loans, including one "currently getting payment notices from the SBA on a $150,000 EIDL loan that was taken out in his name without his knowledge," and asked SBA Inspector General Hannibal "Mike" Ware what his office was doing for identity-theft victims. Ware replied that his office does not have principal jurisdiction over identity-theft investigations ("That belongs to the Federal Trade Commission"), that it had worked with SBA on a system to assist victims, and that a report on SBA's handling of identity theft would be issued by the end of the following month.⁷

June 14, 2022: Select Subcommittee hearing on federal pandemic-fraud enforcement. The printed record of "Examining Federal Efforts to Prevent, Detect, and Prosecute Pandemic Relief Fraud to Safeguard Funds for All Eligible Americans" (Serial No. 117-86, CHRG-117hhrg47805) records Raskin present and taking five minutes of questions.³ He asked Horowitz what controls were in place when PPP and EIDL were created; Horowitz said about "$400 billion went out in two weeks out of an $800-billion program, relying essentially only on self-certification," and that 57,000 PPP loans were approved for applicants on the Do Not Pay List.³ Raskin asked Ware how the $25 million his office received under the American Rescue Plan was being used; Ware described staffing up, "over 300" arrests and convictions his office had taken part in, more than $1 billion in funds returned and a further $3.1 billion SBA had recovered with its help.³

March 31, 2022: improper payments. The attendance roster for the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing "Follow the Money: Tackling Improper Payments" records Raskin present.⁸

Where they are now (2025–2026)

His official House biography states that he serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 119th Congress.¹

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

Official House biography, raskin.house.gov (captured Sept. 18, 2026)
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, member attendance roster, hearing with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin (Sept. 1, 2020)
Select Subcommittee, hearing transcript, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin (Sept. 1, 2020, Serial No. 116-114)
Select Subcommittee, member attendance roster, "Lowering the Guardrails" (Mar. 25, 2021)
Select Subcommittee majority staff memorandum, "Lowering the Guardrails" (Mar. 25, 2021)
Select Subcommittee, hearing transcript, "Rooting Out Fraud in Small-Business Relief Programs" (Mar. 25, 2021, Serial No. 117-12)
Select Subcommittee, hearing transcript, "Examining Federal Efforts to Prevent, Detect, and Prosecute Pandemic Relief Fraud…" (June 14, 2022, Serial No. 117-86)
Subcommittee on Government Operations, member attendance roster, "Follow the Money: Tackling Improper Payments" (Mar. 31, 2022)

Sources

Office of Rep. Jamie Raskin, official biography, raskin.house.gov/about (captured Sept. 18, 2026; text extract). Archive: raskin-house-gov-official-biography_2026-09-18 · Official biography of Rep. Jamie Raskin (original: raskin.house.gov) ↩
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, "Hearing with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin — The Trump Administration's Response to the Economic Crisis," Sept. 1, 2020 (Serial No. 116-114), preliminary transcript. Archive: hhrg-116-vc00-transcript-20200901 ↩
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, "Examining Federal Efforts to Prevent, Detect, and Prosecute Pandemic Relief Fraud to Safeguard Funds for All Eligible Americans," June 14, 2022 (Serial No. 117-86, CHRG-117hhrg47805). Archive: 2022-06-14 hearing transcript ↩
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, member attendance roster, hybrid hearing with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, Sept. 1, 2020. Archive: hhrg-116-vc00-20200901-mbrroster ↩
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, member attendance roster, "Lowering the Guardrails: How the Trump Administration Failed to Prevent Billions in Pandemic Small Business Fraud," Mar. 25, 2021. Archive: hhrg-117-vc00-20210325-mbrroster ↩
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff memorandum to Members, "Lowering the Guardrails: How the Trump Administration Failed to Prevent Billions in Pandemic Small Business Fraud," Mar. 25, 2021. Archive: 2021-03-25 staff memorandum ↩
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, "Rooting Out Fraud in Small-Business Relief Programs," Mar. 25, 2021 (Serial No. 117-12), preliminary transcript. Archive: 2021-03-25 hearing transcript ↩
Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Government Operations, member attendance roster, "Follow the Money: Tackling Improper Payments," Mar. 31, 2022. Archive: hhrg-117-go24-20220331-mbrroster ↩