Elijah Cummings actually said...

"It is very frustrating for my constituents, about a year or so ago we had a forum in my district with the Federal Reserve for small business people."

"Sometimes I think, Ms. Romero, we get caught up, and I have seen this in government in various ways, in a culture of mediocrity."

"We can do better. And that is what you are saying."

"While the overall unemployment rate has dropped to 7.6 percent as of March, the same is not true for the African American unemployment rate which hovers at 13.5 percent."