Cicilline actually came to see me that day. So Tabitha and Hank were with me in Steny's office as colleagues dropped by to console us about the loss of our middle child Tommy, our beloved Tommy. Steny Hoyer, our Majority Leader, had kindly offered me the use of his office on the House floor, because I was one of the managers that day, and we were going through our grief. And they asked me directly, would it be safe? Would it be safe? And I told them, of course it should be safe. And I invited them instead to come with me to witness this historic event, the peaceful transfer of power in America.Īnd they said they heard that President Trump was calling on his followers to come to Washington to protest. And I told them I had to go back to work, because we were counting electoral votes that day, on January 6th. But the reason they came with me that Wednesday, January 6, was because they wanted to be together with me in the middle of a devastating week for our family. And I consider him a son, too, even though he eloped with my daughter and didn't tell us what they were going to do.īut it was in the middle of COVID-19.

Also there was my son-in-law Hank, who's married to our oldest daughter Hannah. It was the day after we buried her brother, our son Tommy, the saddest day of our lives. JAMIE RASKIN: Distinguished members of the Senate, my youngest daughter Tabitha was there with me on Wednesday, January 6th. Jamie Raskin made opening argument in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

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