Elijah Cummings: “I tell a little story that there was once a gentleman who had come home from war, and he was marching down Pennsylvania…”

“I tell a little story that there was once a gentleman who had come home from war, and he was marching down Pennsylvania Avenue with the troops, and his mother came out with a friend. The mother said, look at my son. Look how great he is. And so the friend says, he does not look too great to me. He is out of step. And the mother said, that is why he is so great. The Wright Brothers are misfits. They are wonderful misfits. I can imagine that when they went around and said one day that man would be able to fly around in a piece of metal, folk looked at them as if they were crazy. But the fact is that they were misfits. They believed in what could be done. They could not see it, but they knew it. So today this legislation is very significant to commemorate two great misfits, folks who believed what others could not see. I would urge all of my colleagues to vote in favor of this very important legislation.”