Elijah Cummings

Today is a terribly sad day for the LGBT community and for all of America.

It is not clear what this amendment does or what it is intended to do. I agree that there should be accountability for IT security, but we have had no hearings or other discussion on this issue. The Federal Information Security Management…

We have reviewed the Palmer amendment and find that it only makes technical changes to the bill, so I will not oppose it. However, it does nothing to improve the bill, which I will continue to oppose. I yield back the balance of my time.

In their eyes you had one job and one job only, to prosecute Hillary Clinton.

I hope that the IG bill helps you all, I hope that helps, because we worked very hard on that bill.

They've got it all out in the press, oh, Hillary Clinton lied because she--and then we come to find out there were three that had markings of a 'C,' and it was the wrong marking.

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.

One of the things that bothers me about this whole thing is this retroactive classification.

We will follow the facts wherever they lead, and partisan politics has no bearing on what we're doing.

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?

Wow. Like Mr. McCullough's letter, it failed to answer any of the specific questions from the ranking members.

The letter asked you 13 questions. To date, neither of you has answered one single one of those questions. Why is that?

When we are addressing you, there are a whole cadre of people who give their blood, their sweat, and their tears to protect us as Americans.

Director Comey made crystal clear that Republican claims and some of the talking heads' claims of bias are completely false.

You said: My family and my reputation. My family and my reputation.

I am all for, I've supported police, I am a lawyer, and I know how important police are, and I know there's so many great folks.

As an African American man in this country, 66 years old, moving towards the twilight of my life, we cannot allow Black men to continue to be slaughtered.

I understand that Secretary Clinton is the only one running for President, but it does not make sense that she was singled out for a referral to the FBI. Do you agree with that?

Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.

At what point--or do you even think about it becoming a chilling effect?

No reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case.

I didn't see any of my Republican colleagues complain when former Governor Bob McDonald was exonerated by an 8-0 vote at the Supreme Court.

The last thing we should do is criminalize our political system.

Let's work together and introduce legislation to make the same laws apply to us as apply to the executive branch and to Secretary Clinton.

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 to the same law that Secretary Clinton was subject to.