Over the past two years, the Democrat from Maryland has both mourned his son and confronted his own mortality, while serving in some of the most demanding leadership positions in Congress.
being pressed to book his next plane ticket“There’s an essay I read by Susan Sontag where she says that everybody’s born with two passports, a passport to the land of the well and a passport to the land of the ill,” Raskin said. “And we hope to be using just one passport. But over the course of our lives, everybody is going to use both of them. And it’s interesting because I didn’t leave the 8th District or Washington once — I was here the whole time.
wearing a pump as he went through treatment. Some colleagues joked to him that he was drumming up sympathy to get votes for his cause. They had a point, he said.“I could have skipped it and let somebody else do it. But I was so into this moment,” Raskin said. Ocasio-Cortez said she didn’t get the sense Raskin was persisting “despite what’s happening” — but almost “because of what’s happening, because of all this adversity.” “I don’t think a person could do this if it wasn’t about something bigger than one’s self,” she said of Raskin’s persistence.
Rep. Nancy Mace said she was struck not just by how present Raskin was throughout his chemotherapy but that every time she saw him he exuded “so much energy and has stayed so positive,” which she said she found personally inspiring. But the thing about using that other passport, Raskin said, is it shifts perspective. He wasn’t feeling fear, at least “not as a primary emotion,” after his diagnosis — the worst had already happened to him when he lost Tommy. Instead he felt himself wanting to live up to the wishes Tommy left in his final note — to take care of each other and the animals and global poor — with even more vigor.“It made me realize how much I have to live for,” Raskin said.
He’s been making a mental list of pros and cons, going back and forth. On the one hand, if he stays in the House, he’ll have the gavel on the House Oversight Committee if Democrats win control: He could be an agenda-setter. On the other hand, if he goes to the Senate, he’ll have a say in judicial nominations: “The Supreme Court is something very important to me.” But he’ll lose his seniority, and part of him feels invested in the class of freshman Democrats serving with him on Oversight.
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