Elijah Cummings actually said...

"I had hope that our hearing would not be whether we had a problem--we have one--but how we would go about solving it."

"I just want to correct the record. I have been here for every minute of every hearing, and she probably has the best attendance of any member."

"Congress as an institution has failed the American people by failing to do something about what I regard as the most important issue for our country and for the world today."

"The true measure of leadership is whether we leave the world better for our children and our grandchildren and those yet unborn than we found it."