Elijah Cummings

If we ban a suspected terrorist from boarding a plane, why in the world would we let him walk across the street into a gun store and stock up on military-style assault weapons within 72 hours?

We as elected officials here in the Congress should be able to agree that suspected terrorists, suspected terrorists should not have guns.

We cannot ignore them. We must act, and we must act now.

To say that our prayers go out to the families, while certainly true, is simply no longer enough.

In fiscal year 2017, it will ensure that more than 50 million seniors and their dependents receive the benefits earned through their lifetime of work.

The Social Security Administration is located in the 7th Congressional District of Maryland.

We cannot expect Federal agencies to modernize, replace, and strengthen their information systems against determined, sophisticated cyber attackers without giving them the resources and tools they need to do so.

The ticking time bomb here is that Republicans keep slashing agency budgets year after year, and pretending that these actions have no negative repercussions.

The employees who came forward deserve to have their allegations thoroughly and fairly investigated.

I want to make sure that we are putting responsibility where responsibility belongs.

There have been few times in my 20 years on this committee that I have felt so strongly about an individual.

Certainly, we would not want you to go into something that is going to not yield a sufficient profit.

I just think that we have got to get this done.

And I have always been concerned about making sure that we save as much money as possible.

We have got to try to address the issues that come out of this.

We need to be striving for it every day.

No system, unfortunately, is perfect.

I think it is very important that we put faces.

ICE also explained that discretionary releases typically occur with individuals associated with less-serious offenses.

I have tremendous respect for our U.S. attorneys.

Studies have widely shown that the recidivism rate for immigrant criminals is lower than for the general population.

Census data from 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 found that incarceration rates for native-born, essentially U.S. citizens, were 2 to 5 times higher than that of immigrants.

We need to eliminate any misperception that immigrants as a group are more likely to be criminals or commit acts of violence.

We must come together to reject racist rhetoric and work to make our community safer in a comprehensive and constructive way.

I will not sit by silently as some have tried to plunge our nation into a hateful division where we turn against each other.