Elijah Cummings

Law enforcement's access of state databases, particularly DMV databases, is often done in the shadows with no consent.

If my colleagues were serious about making coverage more affordable for the American people, they will condemn the Administration's actions.

President Obama said it best. He said we have in our country quite often an empathy deficit.

I believe that we can help all of us if we have the will, and it can be an effective and efficient system, and one that will work for all Americans.

It is very difficult, as you probably know, to get the Congress to move in a direction of reducing the cost of drugs, prescription drugs.

I have for at least seven years been fighting with many of my colleagues to bring down the cost of prescription drugs.

If the President truly wants to tackle the opioid epidemic, it starts with protecting and expanding, rather than taking away, healthcare for the millions of Americans battling substance use disorders.

The notion that ensuring that everybody has a shot at getting healthcare when they need it is breaking the bank is preposterous.

It took a lot of chutzpah to hear my friend on the other side go down the list of the costs going up of health care, deductions going up, when that is a direct result of actions that the Republican Congress took when they controlled this…

Partisan attorneys general filed suit to say that without the mandate, the entire law should fail.

Don't take away coverage from 20 million people. Don't return to the crisis, the health crisis, that we endured before the ACA.

The public does not want the ACA to be overturned. For well over a year, a majority of Americans support the law.

As a Nation, we have got to get a handle on healthcare costs, but to blame the ACA for out-of-control healthcare costs is like a drowning man blaming a life preserver for getting him wet.

It is wrong to say that the ACA is the cause of high insurance premiums.

If the ACA is struck down, 20 million people in America will lose health insurance coverage, period.

Life is short. I do not waste people's time, and I damn sure don't waste mine.

I have often said that voting for the Affordable Care Act was the most important vote of my career.

It really works against us, it works against us when we get documents after the interview.

I understand that many of the documents have gotten stuck in an interagency group that has not decided to produce the documents to us yet.

It is our job to ensure that these decisions are being made in the most cost-effective and efficient fashion without favoritism or abuse.

It takes away our power, clear and simple.

Can you commit today to provide the committee with these documents?

The committee is specifically requesting your decisionmaking materials in draft and final.

So if true, I find it highly troubling that a decision, you know, relocating thousands of FBI staff and costing billions of taxpayer dollars would be made without significant paperwork explaining that decision.

I agree with you a million percent with regard to a legitimate interest and what we investigate.