Elijah Cummings

Last but not least, Madam Speaker, it was the songwriter Tracy Chapman who wrote the brilliant words: ``Either we change or we live and die this way.'' And so the Congressional Black Caucus is about the business of changing for the better…

The Bible says, Where there is no vision, the people perish. And the question is, and the gentlewoman hit the nail on the head, what is the vision that we have as opposed to what the other side of the aisle and our President have? I think…

In the State of Maryland, almost every one of our schools that prepare young people for nursing are community colleges and our 4-year colleges have long waiting lists. They cannot accommodate, they do not have the resources to accommodate…

The reason why I wanted to point that chart out is because something interesting is happening here, and we are seeing it in all of our States. The tuition, for example, in Morgan State University in my district, I sit on the Board of…

Mr. Speaker, the Bush budget eliminates all kinds of programs...the Bush budget freezes funding for Head Start, which provides education and nutrition service for over 297,000 African American children, very, very significant. How do you…

One of the things that I remember when the President was considering going to war, one of the things that was asked of the President by the Congressional Black Caucus was exactly how were we going to pay for this war and exactly where was…

In other words, when you have the loss of jobs and you have, in looking at the very end of your chart there, does that, how does that affect the overall economy?

There has been a question that has been raised over and over again, and, as a matter of fact, I think I just heard the President say this within the last few days, that one of the problems was 9/11, and that 9/11 caused us to go through…

Let me just say this: we in the Congressional Black Caucus stand very strongly behind this effort to bring peace to this land of Haiti, and we will continue to stand, and we do appreciate the meeting that we did have with the President…

I think, certainly, when we come to this House, we come here for the purpose of lifting up the people that we represent in making their lives better. And when you look at the jobless rate, which is 5.7 at the latest count, I think, it is…

It is so interesting that when we talk about Medicare, Medicare is so important to so many people. If we did not have Medicare, we would have to invent it because it touches the lives of so many. And I have often said that if I were sick…

So, Mr. Speaker, again as I have said before, there are so many deeds that go unnoticed, and the ones who perform them are often unseen, unnoticed, unappreciated, and unapplauded. Tonight we in the Congressional Black Caucus take a moment…

So many people here hear the Congressional Black Caucus stand up over and over again and talk about the war and talk about our objections to the war; but one thing they always hear from us over and over again is that we support our troops…

I get letters all the time from our veterans on that issue of concurrent receipt. As a matter of fact, I just got something today where a gentleman from Oklahoma was just very upset. He said, ``I wish you all would address that, because it…

It seems to be just an unfair situation, when you are injured and you go leave the military on a disability and then your disability payments are then deducted from the funds that you are supposed to be getting.

Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, with 112 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and another probable 220 billion barrels. In the current world rate, the value of proven Iraqi reserves would be about $2.8 trillion…

The gentlewoman also spoke about the principles of the Congressional Black Caucus, and there were two sets of principles as the gentlewoman referenced. We had one set of principles that came prior to the war, and then we had another set of…

We merely say to the President, be accountable, be accountable. I thank my colleagues very much.

With $87 billion, we could spend 27 times more on AIDS research than the Federal Government spent in fiscal year 2000. We could spend $226,000 on each individual AIDS patient in the United States, and we could fulfill the President's…

When children come on the Earth, we already know that they have gifts; and the question is what will we do as adults to help them develop those gifts.

Research has shown that for every dollar we spend for Head Start, we save 4 to $7 later on. Of course we are talking about we help children avoid teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, dropping out of school, which later on cost society…

It is certainly my pleasure this evening to come here to the floor of the House to address on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus two issues that are of paramount concern. Both of them go to the very essence of life and both of them…

I think just about every State has a deficit, and I think one of the things that we have been most concerned about is if this money then goes to the States, this Head Start money goes to the States, we are afraid what might happen to that…

I rise to support H.R. 2030, the Patsy Takemoto Mink Post Office Building offered by Representative Ed Case. Congresswoman Patsy Mink was a trailblazer who fought for the passage of the Women's Educational Equity Act--landmark legislation…

The gentlewoman and I have been here so often when our colleagues cite all kinds of passages from the Bible and talk about how we are supposed to do for our brothers and sisters. It makes me wonder sometimes whether we are reading the same…