CNN: White House ignores congressional inquiry on security clearance procedures
The White House is ignoring a bipartisan congressional inquiry regarding documents about the Rob Porter scandal, prompting the House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat to request that the White House...
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Cummings: What Kind of Nation Have We Become When We Fail to Protect Our...
In the wake of yet another mass slaughter of innocent Americans, I am writing to implore my colleagues in both the Congress and our state legislatures to go to CNN’s website and listen carefully to the...
View ArticleThe Hill: Cummings calls for hearings on citizenship census question
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is calling on Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) to hold hearings on the constitutionality of adding a...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren & Elijah Cummings: Treat the opioid crisis like the HIV/AIDS...
In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second year in a row — and drug overdoses are the single biggest reason...
View ArticleWashington Post: House Democrats seek more information about Trump aides’...
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee raised concerns Monday about the transparency of a legal-defense fund to help defray the costs faced by aides to President Trump who...
View ArticleThe Hill: Cummings Calls for Hearing With Pruitt
The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called for a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday over a series of...
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Elijah Cummings and Elizabeth Warren: Building the Political Courage to Save...
By Elijah Cummings and Elizabeth Warren, Special to the AFRO Our nation’s substance use crisis—which has as its epicenter the opioid epidemic—must compel our government to act. Like the plagues of old,...
View ArticleSen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings seek $100 billion to fight...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland teamed up Thursday on a proposal that calls on Congress to invested $100 billion to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic over...
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Cummings: Congress and the President Must Respond to the Opioid Crisis
Recently, in front of a Baltimore restaurant, I watched as a young man was pushed out of a car, unconscious, and on to the sidewalk in front of us – and I was told that this happens more often than one...
View ArticleHouse Democrats seek bank subpoena in Manafort probe
Top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want to subpoena a leading Chicago bank over charges that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort promised its CEO a White House job in exchange for...
View ArticleRep. Elijah Cummings decries President Trump’s ‘radio silence’ on drug prices
Despite spending an hour together in the Oval Office last year, Rep. Elijah Cummings said Thursday he got “radio silence” from President Trump on a proposal they discussed to lower prescription drug...
View ArticleTrump abandoned his promise on prescription drug prices, Elijah Cummings says...
As President Donald Trump laid out a plan Friday to reduce prescription drug prices, U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings accused him of abandoning a campaign proposal to allow Medicare to directly negotiate...
View ArticleDemocrats criticize Justice official for refusing to answer questions about...
A week after a Justice Department official failed to show up for a hearing, Democrats blasted him Friday for not answering questions about the agency’s request to add a controversial question about...
View ArticleCummings: Ending Price Gouging By The Prescription Drug Industry
If you suspect that you and your family are paying far too much for the prescription medicines that help you stay healthy and alive, your suspicions are justified – and you are not alone. These...
View ArticleAll incumbents win in Maryland US House primary races
WASHINGTON — All incumbents have won their party’s primary in the Maryland election Tuesday for congressional seats in the U.S. House. In the competitive 6th District, Republican candidate Amie Hoeber,...
View ArticleBipartisan Group of Lawmakers Files Brief Supporting Unions’ Legal Challenge...
A bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers on Monday filed a brief in support of federal employee unions’ legal challenge against three controversial executive orders that seek to make it...
View ArticleHouse lawmakers make bipartisan demand for data on families split at border
Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding detailed information about illegal immigrant families who have been separated at the border. The top Democrat on the committee,...
View ArticleLawmakers demand details about every migrant child separated from parents
Two House Oversight Committee leaders are pressing key Trump Cabinet officials for a detailed accounting of the thousands of children separated from their parents since the administration began its...
View ArticleScott Pruitt’s Resignation Is Just The Start
It started way back on Sept. 27, 2017, with a Washington Post report exposing how Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt “took charter, military flights that cost taxpayers more...
View ArticleRep. Elijah Cummings: Some Migrant Children Will Never Be Reunited With Their...
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) discusses the Trump administration’s border policy, saying the WH didn’t initially intend to reunited families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. “I think nobody really...
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