It is time for Congress to start conducting its own independent and credible oversight of the Trump administration rather than walling off the White House from scrutiny. Elijah Cummings More Quotes by Elijah Cummings More Quotes From Elijah Cummings Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. Elijah Cummings votingrightslong Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day. Elijah Cummings republicanhousetoday The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets. Elijah Cummings pocketsdecisionpeople I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional. Elijah Cummings confusedjobschildren Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation. Elijah Cummings colorcompassionstruggle People want transparency in government. Elijah Cummings governmentwantpeople It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. Elijah Cummings hymnsjourneyrights African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. Elijah Cummings aidsafrican-americanfemale All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets. Elijah Cummings trumppocketsifs Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year. Elijah Cummings childhoodchildrenyears By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. Elijah Cummings generationsdrugchildren When you see the destruction, you've also got to realize there's pain, there's pain behind a lot of this. Elijah Cummings politics We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community. Elijah Cummings top-news As we tried to march to that pool over six days, I was beaten, all kinds of rocks and bottles thrown at me. Elijah Cummings top-news Yes, you've got people dying. Come on now, i think we have a real to do whatever is necessary to save lives. Elijah Cummings top-news This bill passed the House Oversight Committee and I call on the Senate and Senate Majority Mitch McConnell to take it up and consider the measures, and then I want the President to sign it. Elijah Cummings top-news We must also stop the hateful incendiary comments, we got to do it. Those in the highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language and encouraging reprehensible behavior. It only creates more division among us and severely limits our ability to work together for the common good. As a country, we finally must say enough is enough. That we are done with the hateful rhetoric. That we are done with the mass shootings. That we are done with white supremacists, domestic terrorist, who terrorizing in our country and fighting against everything America stands for. Elijah Cummings top-news But the American people are begging us for more than thoughts and prayers, they want an answer, and guess what ? They want it now, because they know that this is a critical moment in our history. Elijah Cummings top-news Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents. Elijah Cummings top-news However, it is clear that it is not beneath President Trump. The president should be ashamed, we know that Baltimorians and other individuals across the country live in housing that is sub-standard and that if President Trump and President Trump [ Housing and Urban Development ] director... got serious about making that agency work for the benefit of Baltimorians and people in cities like Baltimore instead of trying to cut the budget for that agency every year, the change that could be made. Elijah Cummings politics
