Elijah Cummings

I simply ask that these drugs be reasonably priced so that those most marginalized and at risk can reap their benefit.

I believe that there are actions that you could take, that this committee could take at this time that would make PrEP available.

I am glad that Mr. Howley has agreed to appear today and to cooperate with our investigation, but we are going to have some difficult questions for him on behalf of the American taxpayer.

Chairman Cummings was instrumental in getting an awareness to Maryland so every county in Maryland now provides real-time data not only to law enforcement about where overdoses are occurring...

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.

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

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 at that time 40-plus-year-old data…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

If it was such a best practice, then obviously we'd make everybody do it.

I certainly appreciate this hearing, because this Postal Service is an issue we work on every Congress, and don't seem to move very far.

This should not be a partisan issue, would you agree?

The Postal Service matters to the American public and the American economy.

I want to compliment the unions, because every time I--every time we try to work with the Post Office...

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

So, I'm asking do you have any sense of how much integrating Postal Service employees into Medicare would increase the costs of the Medicare system itself, or would somehow burden the Medicare system itself?

The Postal Service has made several changes to meet these challenges.

Unfortunately, the Postal Service's financial condition has been deteriorating over the past decade.

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.

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.

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.

The White House is rejecting requests from congressional Democrats to obtained documents tied to President Trump's communications with Vladimir Putin.

Sir, I have the floor.

Let me be abundantly clear, I run this committee.

I will never forget, when I first became chairman, the first thing that The New York Times asked me was, what is your No. 1 priority. I told them the census, because it affects so much.