Elijah Cummings actually said...

"You can't do the job that we are paying you to do. Your effectiveness and efficiency is diminished."

"I am glad you said that."

"But on the other hand, the rank and file, the folks getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning, giving their blood, their sweat and their tears, they get messed over."

"We have a way up here of maligning Federal employees over and over and over again."