Elijah Cummings

Speaker Boehner proudly highlights on his own Web site that the House has already taken '30 votes to scrap the President's health care law' during this Congress alone.

Without legitimate ideas of their own on how to replace the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans simply want to gut it.

This week the Republican House leadership has scheduled yet another debate and vote on the House floor to take away access to health insurance coverage for tens of millions of Americans.

Mr. Chairman, just out of curiosity, are you planning to end the hearing now or are you getting ready to just go on and on and on?

I am glad that the Federal Government did step in to this situation because we were able to save millions of jobs.

I don't think there is anyone over on this side that thinks only the Federal Government can do what the Federal Government was able to do.

I see no difference between these cases other than that the gentlemen here today have all agreed to be interviewed by the Inspector General, and Mr. Schaumber has not.

I strongly support our inspectors general and I believe our Committee should help them when they cannot obtain access to information.

I think this could have been handled with a few phone calls rather than a hearing, but that is not my call to make.

That calamity was averted by the actions of you, our former members of the Government and the Obama Administration's Auto Task Force.

I want to associate myself with your words and those of Mr. Quigley and Ms. Romero with regard to the necessity and the importance of witnesses cooperating in these investigations.

The bankruptcy of U.S. automakers and the collapse of the domestic auto assembly industry could eliminate up to 3.3 million U.S. jobs within the next year.

I will tell you what you did. When you called the whistleblowers in, and the whistleblowers, who are ATF agents, and you know this--

I will remind the gentleman that all of this started under President Bush. I reserve the balance of my time.

To increase transparency surrounding the issuance of waivers, Congressman Landry and I introduced H.R. 3202, the American Mariners Job Protection Act.

The Jones Act is the law of the land. It is the cornerstone of our United States maritime capability, and it should be waived only in the interest of rarest of circumstances.

Ranking Member Cummings requested that Chairman Issa make investigating foreclosure abuses one of the Committee's top priorities in the 112th Congress.

To date, he has sent four letters to Representative Darrell E. Issa, the Chairman of the Committee, but Chairman Issa has declined to seek any information from mortgage servicing companies relating to these abuses.

Your provision, one that passed with overwhelmingly bi-partisan support in the House, would provide significant foreclosure protections for servicemembers.

Your proposal goes a long way in protecting the homes of our Guard and reserve members, veterans and their surviving spouses.

H.R.5747: the Military Family Home Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.) while noble in intent; has some inconsistencies on the mortgaged property it covers.

It's good to know we can work together in the spirit of bipartisanship to provide housing protections to servicemembers, veterans, and their families.

H.R. 5747 is a common-sense bill that would expand the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to protect more of our brave men and women in uniform from losing their homes while they protect our freedoms abroad.

The American Legion applauds Representative Cummings for his leadership and efforts to tackle and address this issue.

Nobody fighting abroad to protect our country should also have to fight here at home just to keep a home and a roof over the heads of their loved ones.