Cummings demands EPA subpoena for Pruitt’s public records policy
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is pressing Chairman Trey Gowdy to subpoena EPA and force the agency to release information about how Scott Pruitt’s aides scrutinized politically...
View ArticleBaltimore City, Md. Congressional delegation fight proposed federal...
Baltimore City’s mayor and health commissioner were joined by the full force of the local Congressional delegation today in denouncing a move by the Trump administration which takes aim at health...
View ArticleBaltimore officials denounce proposed cuts to reproductive health centers...
Baltimore’s congressional delegation joined city officials Monday in denouncing potential federal cuts to reproductive health services. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed...
View ArticleBaltimore city officials urge comprehensive U.S. help on ‘desperate’ opioid...
With 175 Americans dying each day from drug overdoses, the opioid crisis is akin to “a plane crashing every day,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said Friday as she and other Baltimore officials urged Congress to...
View ArticleTrump’s worst political nightmare? Democrats with subpoena power.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — the panel with the broadest investigative jurisdiction in Congress — was careful not to presume Democrats would...
View ArticleCummings calls for Oversight hearing with Cohen
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is calling for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing with Michael Cohen, who implicated the president in his guilty plea to campaign finance violations...
View ArticleHuffington Post: Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare May Come In The Form Of Rep....
An agenda is taking shape that could have a paralyzing effect on the Trump administration, as Democrats on the House oversight committee begin to take decisive action in response to recent revelations...
View ArticleCummings: Our Children’s Education is on the Ballot this Year
More than half a century ago, my parents and a wonderful teacher named Mr. Hollis Posey followed their hearts and championed my right to learn. As a result, I received the empowering education in our...
View ArticleBaltimore Observes International Overdose Awareness Day
International Overdose Awareness Day had cities all over the world, including Baltimore, struggling to save lives and fight addiction. In 2017, more than 72,000 people died of overdoses in the U.S., or...
View ArticleNew York Times: Democrats, Eyeing a Majority, Prepare an Investigative Onslaught
House Democrats, increasingly optimistic they will win back control in November, are mining a mountain of stymied oversight requests in preparation for an onslaught of hearings, subpoenas and...
View ArticleRep. Cummings: Trump administration turns back the clock on health care reform
Last week, a federal court in Texas heard oral arguments in yet another lawsuit attacking the Affordable Care Act. The difference this time is that the Trump administration refused to defend the law —...
View ArticleUniversity of Maryland virus institute joins hunt for opioid treatment
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cumming, a Maryland Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, pushed for the increase in NIH funding to address addiction. The pair also worked on separate...
View ArticleMaryland Rep. Cummings calls for emergency committee hearing if Rod...
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings called on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday to conduct an emergency hearing if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is forced out of his position...
View ArticleRep. Cummings: Doctors Saved Her Life, but She Cannot Afford the Cure
Submitted to the AFRO by Elijah Cummings Recently, a wonderful neighbor I met at Johns Hopkins Hospital gave me a real-life message that our nation and its government should hear. “Congressman,” she...
View ArticleElijah Cummings Is Ready to Investigate Trump
Elijah Cummings says he doesn’t have a lot of patience, and he has even less trust. To him, Donald Trump “is a person [who] calls a lie ‘the truth’ and the truth ‘a lie.’” He thinks the president...
View ArticleRep. Cummings: This is what ‘our democracy restored’ will look like
Submitted to the AFRO by Elijah Cummings After 22 disheartening months of the Trump presidency, the Pew Research Center released a national survey, Sept. 26, with encouraging news for the future of our...
View ArticleMaryland’s Elijah Cummings could become chief Trump investigator if Democrats...
The congressman who could become President Donald Trump’s recurring political nightmare has photos on his office walls of himself with anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, pathbreaking boxer Muhammad...
View ArticleMaryland Rep. Cummings says documents detail Trump involvement in decision to...
House Democrats said Thursday that they have obtained emails showing President Donald Trump intervened in a decision to build a new FBI headquarters at its current Washington location. The lawmakers...
View ArticleABC News: Incoming House Dem committee chairs say they will investigate...
Two incoming Democratic congressional committee chairs say they plan on investigating President Donald Trump, but that there will be limits on how they use the power of their newfound majority....
View ArticlePolitico: Cummings: I won’t hand out subpoenas like ‘candy on Halloween’
The congressman likely to lead the bulk of House Democrats’ investigations into President Donald Trump’s administration cautioned Sunday that he would use his subpoena powers sparingly and work to...
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