Elijah Cummings actually said...

"we will look to our very able Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, headed up by the Honorable Jamie Raskin, to followup with additional hearings."

"I think a lot of people do not realize how difficult it is when someone has a record."

"I do not think people really fully understand the volume of African American people who are locked up for offenses like dealing with marijuana and things of that nature, nonviolent."

"What they wanted more than anything was to be productive members of society. They wanted to have a job."