Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, free from cancer, weighs a Senate run

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/ [login to see] /jamie-raskin-senate-house-reelection
On a recent morning, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin was sitting in the kitchen of his home in Takoma Park, Md., just outside Washington, D.C., contemplating a major decision.

He's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate after going into remission following intensive cancer treatment.

"I've written a speech announcing my reelection campaign for the House, I've written a speech declaring my candidacy for the Senate," Raskin says. "I figure out my situation best through the process of writing."

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Raskin has given himself a Fourth of July deadline to pick one of those speeches to publicly announce his plans.

"I have had friends on Capitol Hill tell me that I would be crazy to think about leaving the House of Representatives," Raskin said. "And then there are people who say to me that the U.S. Senate seats open up once every quarter century, and I would be crazy not to run for it at this point."