Elijah Cummings actually said...

"H.R. 1 would take significant amounts of the decisionmaking of how we apply and how we exercise our voting from the state and move it to the Federal level."

"I think that the Chief Justice was correct in the ruling in Shelby, and I think that it is correct that the Voting Rights Act preclearance requirement that that case addressed, being based wrongly on ..."

"Despite this constitutional authority, the majority wishes to exert more Federal bureaucracy over each state's authority over local elections."

"The Postal Service is one of our most essential and recognizable institutions."