Elijah Cummings actually said...

"Thank you for the opportunity to address this important issue before the committee, and I look forward to answering your questions."

"We have seen significant concern among states about providing this level of access to the FBI."

"Well, if it was prior to facial recognition coming into existence, I am just wondering, do you think that whatever laws you are referring to anticipated something like facial recognition?"

"So when you say 'leverage,' I guess you are saying that there were laws that were out there. These laws did not anticipate something like facial recognition, and now the FBI has decided that it would ..."