Elijah Cummings actually said...

"The right to organize and join a union means the right to operate that union."

"Gentlemen, let me suggest to you that unions subsidize, subsidize the Federal Government through the duties they carry out as a consequence of achieving the right to organize."

"Protecting the poor should not be a partisan issue."

"It is even more troubling in light of their recent efforts to protect lucrative tax breaks for oil companies making record profits."