Kweisi Mfume: “I thank the gentleman from Maryland, the ranking member, for his kind and overly gracious remarks. Mr. Speaker, in his…”

“I thank the gentleman from Maryland, the ranking member, for his kind and overly gracious remarks. Mr. Speaker, in his absence, I thank Chairman Comer who made a commitment several months back that we would get to this point and for his cosponsorship of this bill. I thank my other colleagues from the State of Maryland, some of whom will be speaking today. I rise in obvious support of this, encouraging Members of this body to embrace it and to say that the diligence and the collective commitment to your word to get us to this point means a lot to me. It is not lost on me. It is not lost on the people of the State of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, this legislation designates the United States Postal Service facility, as you heard, located at 340 South Loudon Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the United States Representative Elijah Cummings Post Office Building. This legislation will bestow, I believe, a very fitting honor on a former chair of the Oversight Committee, former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and, most importantly, an unwavering servant of the people in the House that we now all serve in. His legacy, in many respects, lives through the work that he has done, and this legislation will ensure once and for all that his name will continue to be called by the people that he so dutifully served. Mr.…”