Elijah Cummings actually said...

It is fundamentally unfair and irresponsible to force these witnesses to answer questions about this issue in open session.

Cummings criticized the decision to hold an open session instead of a closed one for classified information.

09/11/2016

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Did you all talk to each other about how you all were going to coordinate and not respond to Members of Congress, ranking members at that?

I'd rather do things upfront so that people never commit an offense than to have them commit an offense and then they're in trouble.

I think the grossest double standard here today is the fact that all the members of this committee, every Member of Congress, is not subject...

This committee ignored that breach of national security because it did not match the political goals of the House Republicans.