Elijah Cummings

We want all children to have the kind of opportunities where they can go to school in a decent building.

I want your child to have the same kind of education I would want for my child. And that is important to me, considering my own journey.

The answer is not to slash billions of dollars from national education funding. The answer is not to provide vouchers to provide private schools.

The greatest threat to our national security would be our failure to properly educate every single one of our children.

Personally, I do not understand how anyone can claim to be promoting the education of our nation's children when they are slashing billions of dollars from education funds across the country.

How can a son of two former sharecroppers with a third-grade education each be sitting before you today as a Member of the Congress of the United States of America? Because I was given an education.

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

Our number-one responsibility is to help our children figure out what their gifts are.

I have often said that the greatest investment that we can make is in education.

Let's remember what brings us together as people a whole for a better day than today.

Congressman Elijah Cummings leading a large group away from police.

We live in United States of America as a democracy. And I'm not be a lawyer, I'm very familiar if there are certain steps that we have to go through and all I can do is probably explain to them as best that I can and put it in the lay…

I believe in her and I believe that she -- and all I wanted to do is one thing, search for the truth. Search the whole truth and nothing but the truth and I know she will.

The States Attorney Marilyn Mosby has the case and has looking at it.

I do not feel the sense of urgency. That is right, I said I do not feel a sense of urgency.

If you cannot do the job, you need to let somebody else get in there and do it.

We are better than this. We are so, so, so much better.

Here is what you need to do, if you want to take to step forward, you need to take a step towards your home because that's the law tonight.

You are the experts. You are the ones who give your blood, sweat, and tears.

I just think we--this is of such urgency.

Communication is basic stuff.

There is something wrong with that picture.

I want to take this moment to not only thank you, but thank the members of our Committee, who have expressed their concern about Baltimore.

Again, I want somebody to answer for me: How do you get the money from somebody who is fired, who has no job? With that, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my friend.

Today I want to know how these egregious misconduct incidents could have continued for so long, for the better part of a decade, without being addressed.