Elijah Cummings

Oh, believe me, I know. Martin Shkreli sat right in the seat that you are sitting in and thumbed his nose at us, called us imbeciles because we wanted to know why his company could raise the price of a pill from $13.50 to $750.

People are getting rich. They are charging these unreasonable prices.

To me, that is a very, very sad thing because you have got a situation where literally people are left to get sicker and in many instances die early.

See, we are the United States of America, and this is about trying to make sure we take care of our own.

I just want to make sure that we don't create another situation where people are accusing us of violating the law.

It would have been helpful if you had laid that out from the beginning.

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

Well, here we are again, another day in the Oversight Committee, another emergency hearing about Hillary Clinton.

I guess this is what happens when you try to schedule a public attack against Hillary Clinton for every day of the week.

We should hold this hearing in a closed session, like the chairman said he would in his letter.

I want the American public to know that you have agreed to schedule a hearing on EpiPen.

The chairman's abuse of his unilateral subpoena authority in order to tarnish the Democratic candidate for President.

I think if we don't do anything else, we can try to help with the system of classification because it is so serious and can create all kinds of problems.

The Republicans started with their discredited Benghazi investigation, accusing Secretary Clinton of all kinds of unsubstantiated conspiracies.

This frantic pre-election fervor is an egregious abuse of taxpayer dollars for political purposes.

This hearing is not about an effort to improve FOIA or Federal record-keeping. This is an attack, an attack on Hillary Clinton's candidacy for President of the United States of America and just the latest in a series of attacks.

These actions had their desired effect. They kept repeating the headline that Hillary Clinton is under investigation.

This is one case that shows how serious this situation is and how, when there is failure--and I do consider there are some failures here, something went wrong, a lot went wrong--but we have got to deal with this.

I think it is abundantly clear, as I said a little bit earlier, that we can do better.

I just want to tell you I think we can do better.

Since then, the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security issued a report at the request of Connecticut lawmakers, including our distinguished colleague Congressman Joe Courtney, who has joined us today.

I was especially pained to hear that because of the actions of the Haitian Government and Haitian officials, someone who everybody agreed should not be in this country was allowed back on our streets to do more harm.

We are also very honored to have Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court's recent case legalizing same-sex marriage.

I truly appreciate it. It is much more balanced, and I commend the chairman for agreeing to our request.

To say that this hearing is politically tone-deaf is the understatement of the year.