Elijah Cummings

I also want to thank Senator Carper, who was supposed to be here, who I also had a chance to talk to, and Senator Coburn, who was here with us today, for their role in exposing the details of this case.

These actions are reprehensible, and they diminish the confidence that most Americans have in this program.

I want to thank her for these efforts, and I ask that her entire letter be included in the hearing record.

I am prepared to close. Again, Mr. Speaker, there is nothing to hide. We need to release the transcripts, and just as significantly, we need to hear from the experts. This is a very, very serious issue, and I think that Members of Congress…

I would say to the gentleman that is leaving the floor now who just spoke: the arguments do matter. This is still the United States of America. We still have constitutional rights, which we declare we will uphold every 2 years. I yield 2…

I would say to the gentleman that we are talking about the constitutional rights of a United States citizen, and we do not have the right to remain silent, as Members of Congress, if those rights are being trampled on. I yield 3 minutes to…

With all due respect to the gentleman who just spoke, even the IG found that Lois Lerner did not learn about these inappropriate terms until about a year afterwards, the IG that was appointed by a Republican President. With that, I yield 3…

I would say to the gentleman, as Professor Green of Fordham University has said, it is explicit that a person does not waive a Fifth Amendment right by answering questions outside of a formal setting or by making statements that were not…

We can do better, Mr. P. We can do better. Would you agree?

It is a damn shame that we had to come to a hearing for you all to communicate.

I have run out of time, but we have to resolve this, gentlemen. We have to find a way to get this done, because, as I said in my opening statement, legislatively I don't see it happening.

Nobody should have to go through that, period, woman or man; and I am so sorry that that happened.

More than 3 years ago, a wave of political change swept through the Middle East and North Africa.

Prices have definitely gone up from about $40 or so early in the 2000s to up to about $180 now.

If we are not better, we will not be.

My mom and dad only had a second grade education; they were former sharecroppers. Worked like slaves, but yet and still they were able to have a son who became a congressman.

I don't know what my colleagues would say to that person. Say don't apply for the Affordable Health Care Act, when it is the law?

I stood on Saturday and I talked to those people that waited all day trying to enroll.

They find a way to get it done. And sometimes we make adjustments.

I agree with him, we need to move not to common ground, but to higher ground, what this Nation is all about.

Unfortunately, our Republican friends have voted more than 50 times to repeal, de-fund, and undermine the Affordable Health Care Act.

Put simply, the Affordable Health Care Act saves lives and it prevents people from going through pain.

I am hoping that, as we move forward, since this is the law, by the way, that we move forward to make the law better, and not try to destroy it.

The can-do attitude. Can-do.

In 2009 this committee conducted an investigation of DOT's hazmat program, and were made aware of an internal DOT analysis which showed that 60 to 90 percent of all accidents were unreported.