Elijah Cummings actually said...

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.

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

The August 17, 2012, information memo just referenced is not something new.

It has been done by his own Republican colleagues in the House on this very issue, Benghazi.