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Jamie Raskin

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US Congressional District 8

The Banner · May 18, 2026

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What’s the job: One of Maryland’s eight members in the 435-member U.S. House of Representatives. Responsible for introducing and voting on legislation, approving federal spending and providing oversight of federal government operations. Elected to a two-year term.

Education: Bachelor’s degrees, international finance and marketing, and Spanish languages and literature, University of Maryland; attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico; MBA MTech studies in the United Kingdom.

Experience: Founder and national president, MQAPITAL.

A: We have to reimburse tenured government employees for DOGE abuses. AI is so intricate that it can help model this, but we must tax AI huge as you can have a one- or no-person company with a trillion-dollar trajectory. I want to add a voluntary FICA tax column for Medicaid and we can do thi…