It’s not funny, Mr. Shkreli, people are dying. Elijah Cummings More Quotes by Elijah Cummings More Quotes From Elijah Cummings After 17 months, $ 4.7 million and counting of taxpayer money. . Trey Gowdy is now saying Trey Gowdy has another two dozen witnesses to interview. Elijah Cummings politics Running investigations in a private, fact-centric way is unquestionably the right way to conduct a serious investigation. The pitfall, of course, is that commentators, and sometimes even Members of your own Conference, offer thoughts on matters on which they are not familiar, my team of investigators, drawn from the military, federal agencies and the congressional oversight and ethics committees, has worked hard, and in an above-board manner. It is unfortunate when claims are made by those who do not know what the committee has done, why it has done it, or the results of its work. We made a promise to the families about the integrity of this investigation, and no one on the majority side has forgotten it. Elijah Cummings politics I understand what you're talking about. I get it. Elijah Cummings top-news When you look at our position, that is being in the minority and looking like we will be there for a while, every opportunity we get, I think we have to at least try to bring our votes together to affect change, our power will be sticking together. Elijah Cummings top-news This is the identical approach taken by Chairman (Darrell) Issa when he served as chairman of the Oversight Committee -- forcing witnesses to appear in person to assert their Fifth Amendment rights just for a photo op, mr. Pagliano's testimony has nothing to do with the Benghazi attacks and everything to do with Republicans' insatiable desire to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential bid. Elijah Cummings politics The bottom line is that the Inspector General found no evidence to back up Republican claims of political motivation, White House involvement, or intentional destruction of evidence, calls for Commissioner Koskinen to step down are nothing more than a manufactured Republican political crisis based on allegations that have already been debunked. Elijah Cummings politics It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'. Elijah Cummings top-news Chairman Gowdy has not contacted me, other Democratic members, or anyone on our staff about his proposal to release these documents, nor has he contacted the State Department to clarify why its production of Benghazi-related emails might have differences from Mr. Blumenthal's production of Libya-related documents, (Blumenthal's) deposition may further the Select Committee's inquest of Secretary Clinton, but it won't bring us any new information about the Benghazi attacks because the witness appears not to have any firsthand knowledge about them. Elijah Cummings politics There was no need for the Select Committee to send two U.S. Marshals to the home of Sidney Blumenthal to serve his wife with a subpoena, especially since the Committee never bothered to contact him first to ask him whether he would voluntarily come in. These heavy-handed, aggressive, and unnecessary tactics waste the time of the U.S. Marshal service. Elijah Cummings top-news I understand what they're doing. They're going to throw everything including the spigot, the kitchen sink and the pipes at her, but again we need to let justice move forward, if the officers are innocent, they'll be found innocent. Elijah Cummings top-news Obviously, there are some who want to try it in the media, and Marilyn Mosby has made it very clear that she's not going to do that. Elijah Cummings top-news It is a new day in our city, let the wheels of justice begin to roll. Elijah Cummings world [Body cameras] are a protection for the police and the public. When they know that someone's looking at what they're doing, it makes a difference. Elijah Cummings politics This is getting to be very painful, the silence was chilling. I do need to know a yes or no. Have we done things now that put us in a better position than where we were on the day of this event? And I don't want silence. It's not good enough. Elijah Cummings politics A postal worker -- hello -- was able to fly through restrictive airspace. Elijah Cummings politics I'm hoping that people will listen, this is my neighborhood. I know a lot of these people. Elijah Cummings us We are very proud of what has happened here tonight. We are proud of our city. Elijah Cummings us I feel confident that the (Justice Department) will conduct thorough investigations and that the findings will help provide answers to the many questions surrounding the death of Freddie Gray and the policies and practices of the Baltimore City Police Department. Elijah Cummings politics Any little thing can spark the situation to get out of hand and we cannot afford that, we're better than that. Elijah Cummings most-read-articles She's not going to say anything she hasn't already said, she wants to come in and talk once. She'll talk about the emails. Elijah Cummings politics
