Elijah Cummings: “As I close, Mr. Speaker, I would just say that I visited a school the other day, and I was thinking about the little…”

“As I close, Mr. Speaker, I would just say that I visited a school the other day, and I was thinking about the little children who were standing up and putting their little hands to their hearts. I would say probably a third of these children had parents who were unemployed. As I watched them put their little hands up to their little hearts, these little first graders, and say, ``I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,'' and go on and say, ``one Nation under God, indivisible,'' that every time we get to the ``one Nation'' piece, it makes me on the one hand feel very proud that this is one Nation, but on the other hand I feel sad that one Nation applies in certain instances; but when it comes to the weak in that Nation, suddenly we go our separate ways. So we have a lot of people hurting, and the question is: What will we do to help them?”