Elijah Cummings actually said...

African Americans are incarcerated nearly six times the rate of whites.

It does matter, because there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them, and the number grows every single day.

I have seen them as a Congressman representing a district where finding balance between law and order and crime and punishment is a profound...

It would be, I think, legislative malpractice if we did not do what was appropriate, assuming that we know what to do.