Elijah Cummings actually said...

"the retention rate is not what I would like for it to be, and one of the main reasons why it is not is because the kids don't have money."

"So many have lost jobs in this recession, and as CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told this committee, a large number of those jobs are not coming back."

"none of this matters if, at the end of the day, it does not result in benefits to our constituents."

"At the end of the day, the greatest affirmative action program yet invented is a good, solid education."