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"Keep in mind that on 9/11, we lost about 4,000 people and rightfully so, we mourn their deaths. We've got 45,000 people every year dying and what are we going to [do], turn our backs on them?," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said on MSNBC.

On this morning's MSNBC News Live, co-host Angela Burt-Murray - the Editor-in-Chief of Essence magazine -uncorks this absolutely wild pitch to Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md): Recently you released a report on women and health care, and taking a look at the very real issue that families are facing we have more than 64 million women who have lost health care due to loss of job or a spouse that has lost a job. How do you see the Administration's plan being more able to effectively address this issue for women and children in this country? 64 million? Just women?

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) says town hall protesters "drowning out people" is "un-American."

Things must really be getting tough. A congressman has acknowledged that “even” the lords of Capitol Hill need to tighten their belts. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) made the revealing statement on GMA today. Robin Roberts had invited him to comment on Brian Ross’ investigative report that the head of Bank of America had flown to NYC on a fancy private jet to meet with officials from the NY Attorney General’s office, which is investigating the billions in bonuses Merrill Lynch doled out just before being acquired by BofA. Cummings gave a predictable reply: corporate bosses are “on another planet.” They...

Under the righteous-sounding banners of “equal opportunity,” “inclusion,” and “diversity,” the political Left embraces racial discrimination as legitimate public policy -- so long as the discrimination is practiced on behalf of the minorities that the Left axiomatically considers victims of an irredeemably oppressive America. Thus the Left reacted apoplectically to last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that public school systems may not achieve or preserve racial integration through measures that take explicit account of students’ racial backgrounds. Specifically, the Court’s split decision invalidated programs in Seattle and Louisville (Kentucky) that sought to maintain “diversity” in local schools by factoring race into...

When the Maryland Democratic Party needed a voice to lead its get-out-the-vote efforts, it looked no further than five-term Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. He was not only willing, but available. On the July 3 election filing deadline, Cummings drew no opponents, securing a sixth term representing Maryland in the 7th Congressional District. Rather than quietly assume his post, Cummings has been anything but silent. Cummings has raised about $27,000 for Democrats in Maryland, and more for Democratic causes in fiercely contested races around the country, throwing his weight behind such candidates as Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee for Senate....

Freeper and Lurkers because of you the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is starting to feel the heat from you who have signed the letter demanding the release of all donations made in the name of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The CBCF is in full defense mode and it is refusing comment on the growning scandal that this foundation and its members are withholding donations, while attacking President Bush, federal officials Republicans and Conservatives as being racist in responding to the needs of the victims. There is still time to apply heat to the CBC as they hope to duck...

In a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus: Nader asks for an apology for "obscene racist epithet" made at CBC meeting. Nader Further Asks: "can you imagine if the Abolitionist Party was told not to run against the pro-slavery Whigs and Democratic Parties in the 1840s!" July 13, 2004 Congressman Elijah Cummings Chair--Congressional Black Caucus House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congressman Cummings: Your invitation to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus came to my attention from the media well before it was received in the mail. You will recall that I called you to say that, if the...

WASHINGTON – The United Nations has turned down a controversial request by nine members of the U.S. Congress to assign international observers to the U.S. presidential election in November. The request came in the form of a letter drafted by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, and signed by eight other members of the House. "We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy," the lawmakers wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Besides Johnson, the other representatives signing the letter to Annan – all Democrats – were Julia Carson...

Maryland congressman,Elijah Cummings, has just stated on WCBM radio, that Condoleza Rice and George Bush had warnings that 9/11 was about to happen and did nothing.

Group leader endorses Dean Congressional Black Caucus By Louise Chu Associated Press ATLANTA - The leader of the Congressional Black Caucus officially endorsed presidential candidate Howard Dean on Saturday, praising the former Vermont governor for his willingness to confront issues of race. ''This gentleman has stood up over and over again and made it abundantly clear that race is not some foreign word and something he's not afraid to address,'' said Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. ''He has made it very clear that he wants it to be one America.'' ''I thank you for making the dreams of African...

HOWARD DEAN'S comments about Israel are delaying a much-anticipated endorsement from Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Baltimore Democrat and Congressional Black Caucus chairman. When Cummings appeared with the former Vermont governor during a Baltimore fund-raiser for the presidential candidate last month, a formal endorsement seemed only days away. For Dean, the backing from the CBC head would be a coup, coming soon after Dean endured negative publicity for a comment that the Democratic Party should aggressively pursue the votes of white, male Southerners with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. The remark was intended to illustrate that working- and middle-class...

A meeting between George W. Bush and the Rev. Jesse Jackson after the president addressed the National Urban League in Pittsburgh on Monday has black Republicans roiling with anger and incomprehension. "We are outraged that the people around the president would do such a thing," said Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). "This amounts to aiding and abetting a hustler who has been exposed and is a total repudiation of people like my father, Roy Innis, who have been fighting for a positive cause for years." The 15-minute closed-door meeting also was attended by Rep. Elijah...