Elijah Cummings

This topic is at the core of this committee's mission. It is oversight of Federal dollars and the examination of mismanagement by the government.

The White House refusing to cooperate with GAO's request is an insult to this Congress.

It appears the president may have committed a crime while in office.

Come on now. We can do more than one thing, and we have got to get back to normal.

I'm hoping that all of us can get back to this democracy that we want and that we should be passing on our children.

Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? Did we play games?

And so the President called you a rat. We're better than that. We really are.

The greatest gift that you and I, Mr. President, can give to our children, is making sure that we give them a democracy that is intact, a democracy better than the one that we came upon

Our President has made at least 8,718--8,718 false or misleading statements. That's stunning. That's not what we teach our children.

I think she said that she was not calling you a racist.

I want you to really hear this, Mr. Cohen. We will not tolerate lying to this Congress by anybody. We're in search of the truth.

And the American people, by the way, voted for accountability in November. And they have a right to hear Mr. Cohen in public so they can make their own judgments.

We are in search of the truth.

The American people can judge his credibility for themselves.

You've made it clear that you do not want the American people to hear what Mr. Cohen has to say.

According to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, the president's former attorney and fixer will appear before his committee in public a week from today.

There are strong statements about how broad their investigations are going to be, how much hardball they're going to be prepared to engage in

That's what H.R. 1 is, For the People. That's how we designed it.

Voter suppression is the problem, the obstacle course that has been set up that makes it so difficult for people to register and get to the polls...

You got to do all of these things together to reset the democracy in a place where it respects the average citizen out there...

The most powerful form of protest and engagement an American citizen has is the right to vote.

Election day registration is a perfect antidote to a purge so that you can show up on election day.

So we have seen since 2010 a number of States move efforts to shut down opportunities for people to vote.

I'm grateful to have a vote in this committee, and I thank you, Chairman Cummings, for agreeing to hold a hearing on this bill.

People I represent pay the highest taxes per capita in the United States.