Elijah Cummings actually said...

Absolutely not. Wolf, we have a situation where the Republican Party has allowed a small minority, the Tea Party Republicans, to basically hijack not only in whole hostage, not only the Republican Party, but the Congress and the country.

Context

Cummings responds to the possibility of compromise on the individual mandate, asserting the Republican Party's actions are detrimental.

09/29/2013

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