Elijah Cummings actually said...

"Our committee has responsibility to determine whether taxpayer dollars are being spent effectively and efficiently, or are being abused."

"nearly every major civil rights group in the country, including the NAACP, La Raza, LCCR, MALDEF, and others have expressed serious concerns about this problem."

"You understand that we are concerned about people whose dreams are taken away and then they leave school with two bags, one with nothing in it and the other with debt marked all over it."

"That is criminal. Criminal."