Elijah Cummings Makes History

It's worth noting, during Black History Month, that Representative Elijah Cummings (D - MD 7th), as Chair of the House Oversight Committee, plans to spend significant time on  H.R.1 — a bill to protect voting rights and ethics rules. .

Elijah Cummings

During a hearing Wednesday of the Committee he now chairs, Cummings recalled how his mother, a sharecropper, had witnessed Americans being beaten while seeking the right to vote.  He said that, as she was dying, she said to him Do not let them take our votes away from us.