Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Eugene Cummingsis the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, serving since 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes just over half of Baltimore City, most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County, as well as most of Howard County. He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.
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Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.
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I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues, our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.
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Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
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We need to act as fast as we can to create that diplomatic resolution so that we will not have this problem,
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I heard him say that. I remember that a number of people got kind of upset and kind of just drifted off, out.
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I had expected an expression of regret or apology from Congressman Watt in the subsequent days after he had cooled down,
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I'm very concerned and very upset that anybody who would issue such a statement would be in the leadership of this nation or the Senate, ... We are still trying to resolve exactly what action we will take, but guarantee, action will be taken.
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It reached the point where the answers didn't add up.
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At the present time, our nation physically inspects only 5% of the nearly 11 million containers that come into our nation each year.