Elijah Cummings

The report concludes that these conditions present an immediate risk to the health and safety.

These reports were shocking to the conscience.

We are spending a minimum of $300 a day on these children.

We've got to figure out some solutions, and I think you've presented some.

These women are not voiceless, Mr. Chairman, but they are cruelly and criminally unheard.

I welcome anybody who has gone down there and seen whatever you may have seen so that the Congress, I think, can be sensitive to what's going on.

Families belong together, children belong free, and with their loved ones.

Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.

I certainly think that the Trump administration should not get away with blaming the Congress entirely on--blaming the problem entirely on Congress.

All they want is one more chance to make their way to protect their families to live, and I do not know what is more American than that.

What will we say to this generation of children and parents we imprisoned for seeking safety.

And so you got almost the blind leading the blind. They are not only leading them, they are leading them in the wrong direction.

I guarantee you there is somebody.

Childhood trauma is a pervasive public health issue with long-term negative health effects that costs the United States billions of dollars.

I would be dead without Medicaid.

My mother used to say--my mother used to say there is nothing like a person who don't know what they don't know.

CDC is committed to working with Congress, other Federal, state, and local agencies and partners to address these complex issues and, ultimately, to save lives.

Pain, passion, purpose.

When bad things happen to us, we should not ask the question why did it happen to us but we should ask the question why did it happen for us.

This has been some of the most chilling testimony that I have heard in my 23 years in Congress.

It is not the deed that we do to the children; it is the memory.

I, too, want to applaud Mr. Green. He has worked tirelessly with us to address the issue of suicide in our military.

I want to thank you for your comments, Mr. Jordan.

Thank you to the Honorable Congressman Elijah Cummings and to the honorable congressional colleagues and staff of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

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