Elijah Cummings actually said...

we better wake up and begin to address this more and more as a health problem

In 2010, when I was the Chairman of the Coast Guard Subcommittee, I convened two hearings to examine the status of a U.S.-flag fleet.

The problem is that Republicans just keep asking the same question over and over again and pretend they don't know the answer.

When the Washington Post Fact Checker examined this claim, they gave it four Pinocchios. They called it a whopper.