Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, and his wife, Sarah, confirmed that their 25-year-old son Thomas 'Tommy' Bloom Raskin died on Dec. The Maryland congressman's voice broke, and he paused and put his hand over his face, rubbing his brows as he appeared to hold back tears. In a long obituary posted to Medium on Monday, Rep. "You know what she said? She said, 'Dad, I don't want to come back to the capitol.'" "I promised her it would not be like this again the next time she came back to the Capitol with me," Raskin said. When they were reunited, Raskin told his daughter how sorry he was. My son-in-law had never even been to the capitol before," he said.
Raskin said his chief of staff, daughter, and son-in-law locked themselves in the office, "hiding under the desks, placing what they thought were their final texts and whispered phone calls to say their goodbyes." And all around me, people were calling their wives and their husbands, their loved ones to say goodbye." "I couldn't get out there to be with them in that office. "By the time we learned about it, about what was going on, it was too late," Raskin. His daughter watched from the House visitor's gallery as he made a speech and then returned to Hoyer's office, not knowing that the Capitol had been breached. As Raskin explains, the loss is still intense but the ebbs and flows of the grieving process have. And I felt a sense of being lifted up from the agony, and I won't forget their tenderness." Jamie Raskin Gets Standing Ovation in Congress After Son's Death amid Chaos at Capitol. "Lots of Republicans, lots of Democrats came to see me. "Colleagues dropped by to console us about the loss of our middle child, Tommy," Raskin said. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer offered Raskin his office that day. His daughter and son-in-law had told Raskin that they heard Trump supporters would be in Washington to protest the counting of Electoral College votes and asked if it would be safe for them to attend. In a statement released last week, the Maryland congressman and his. "And I invited them instead to come with me to witness this historic event, the peaceful transfer of power in America." Jamie Raskin has announced the death of his 25-year-old son Tommy, a second-year student at Harvard Law School. It was our constitutional duty," Raskin said.
And I told them I had to go back to work because we were counting electoral votes that day, Jan. 6, was because they wanted to be together with me in the middle of a devastating week for our family. "The reason they came with me that Wednesday, Jan. 6, Raskin brought to the Capitol with him his 24-year-old daughter Tabitha, who is an algebra teacher, and his son-in-law Hank, who is married to his other daughter Hannah - "Who I consider a son too, even though he eloped with my daughter and didn't tell us what they were going to do because it was in the middle of COVID-19," Raskin said.
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