Elijah Cummings: “not only are the Haitian people going through what they are going to in Haiti, but one of the things I think a lot of…”

“not only are the Haitian people going through what they are going to in Haiti, but one of the things I think a lot of people do not realize is that some 75 to 80 percent of people in Haiti live in pure poverty, and I know that when one combines the need for humanitarian assistance such as clean water with the violence, it has got to be painful just as it is painful to us. I would imagine for many of the gentleman's constituents, it is very painful, too, knowing that they have relatives that are going through all that, and then the violence makes it even more difficult for them to live any semblance of a normal life and definitely almost precludes any kind of assistance for going in; and I think that is one of the reasons why we talked today with the President about this humanitarian corridor.”