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Elijah Cummings Quotes

They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.
10/6/2013
You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts.
10/6/2013
We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts.
10/6/2013
Negotiate over what? See, that's the question.
10/6/2013
I did not come to the Congress to throw Mr. Labrador's constituents under the bus, and I'm not throwing mine under the b...
10/6/2013
This is the law.
10/6/2013
I guarantee you. I bet everything I've got, except my wife and kids, that if you put this order forward with a clean, a ...
10/6/2013
You err on the side of opening up government.
10/6/2013
I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to ask your leadership to put a clean CR on the floor and end this s...
9/30/2013
Today is the first time the Federal Government has shut down in 17 years. This has happened because a small group of Tea...
9/30/2013
If they put a clean resolution on the floor, it would pass and there would be no government shutdown.
9/30/2013
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Elijah Eugene Cummings
deceased

usa, Maryland

1,790 Quotes

Born1/18/1951

Died10/17/2019 (aged 68)

PartyDemocratic

  • U.S. House of Representatives

    1/3/1996 - 10/17/2019
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