House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her colleague Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) were duped by a clearly-labeled “parody” Twitter account pretending to be resigned White House national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, promoting the top Democrats to go on a rant about the definition of the term “scapegoat.”
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “For the Record,” Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) stated that “We have to make sure that we uphold our democracy…we have taken this democracy for granted.” And “what’s going to happen in our country is the
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) predicted in response to President Donald Trump’s agenda we are going to see “more and more people going into the streets” to “make sure that the government becomes afraid of
President Donald Trump made a call to Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings from Maryland and expressed his condolences for a staffer that lost six children in a house fire.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said that he doesn’t “necessarily” think the Democratic Party should move away from identity politics, but that the party should “concentrate” on economic issues. Cummings responded to a question
Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” the Democratic ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) disagreed with President-elect Trump saying today the president can’t have a conflict of interest, but instead Cummings said Trump’s business dealings in
Ont the heels of the news that Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero was acquitted in the trial concerning the death of Freddie Gray, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) reacted to the news and was reluctant to criticize the outcome in an appearance
The chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi lashed out at President Barack Obama’s willful failure to respond to document requests from the panel, whose work the chairman wanted completed by December. “This committee’s thorough, fact-centered investigation has been repeatedly
Elijah Cummings has submitted a yet-to-be-published op-ed to the Washington Post in which he endorses Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd went after the ranking Democratic member on the House Select Benghazi Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) for “shielding” Hillary Clinton during her testimony last week instead of ask tough questions. Todd
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that Lois Lerner, and other IRS officials involved in targeting conservative groups’ tax exempt applications, will not have criminal charges filed against them.
California Democrats Rep. Adam Schiff (CA-28) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-28) did their best–or worst–to cover for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she testified on Thursday at the House Benghazi Select Committee.
Thursday at the hearing of the the House Select Committee on Benghazi, chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) got into a heated debate over releasing the testimony of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew that the U.S. government was using a Libyan intelligence source who has been accused of involvement in a major terrorist attack against Americans, and that source is currently living the life of a free citizen, courtesy of the U.S. and British governments.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Trey Gowdy is firing back at Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings’s effort to discredit his work on the House Benghazi Committee ahead of Hillary Clinton’s testimony Thursday.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the ranking Democratic member of House Benghazi Select Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said his counterpart, chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, has turned the Benghazi Select Committee into a “political football” against the wishes of the family
Friday, shortly after State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced six Baltimore police officers now face criminal charges for the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said, “I have come here today to thank God Marilyn
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s
Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her email server “clean,” permanently deleting all emails from it, the Republican chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Friday.
It appears that the two off-duty Secret Service agents who drove their black SUV through a crime scene near the White House on March 4 were quite intoxicated, according to surveillance tapes released by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday during its hearing on the matter.
South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy (R) has been a “man on fire” of late, ripping into Jonathan Gruber this past week at House Oversight Committee hearing, and then saying that he will be calling Hillary Clinton to testify before his
As House leaders tried to corral votes for the Obama-Boehner cromnibus Thursday afternoon, a number of congressional staffers walked out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and put their hands in the air. The group of about 140 staffers offered
Citing Tom Hank’s character Forrest Gump, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa asked MIT’s Jonathan Gruber if he was stupid during a contentious House committee hearing on Tuesday. “Are you stupid?” Issa asked. “I don’t think so. No,” Gruber replied. “Does
Friday at a House Oversight Committee Ebola Response hearing, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said, “We can no longer ignore the crisis in West Africa. We can no longer ignore it. The longer the outbreak continues, the more likely it will
In response to Justice Dept. Watchdog Says DOJ Is Impeding Investigations: The DOJ inspector general complaining about the stonewalls littering his department makes a lovely companion piece to the black comedy of Attorney General Eric Holder’s aide Brian Fallon trying
On Tuesday’s “Politics Nation” on MSNBC, Rep. Elijah Cummings lashed out at his House Oversight Committee collegue, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). According to Cummings, Issa had gone rogue in his duty as committee chairman. Partial transcript as follows: REV. AL
In response to Issa: Lois Lerner Funneled Rep. Cummings info About True The Vote: I think this is a pretty astonishing development myself, and of course so would the assembled ranks of the mainstream media, if Elijah Cummings were a
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released emails Wednesday afternoon showing that Lois Lerner coordinated with Rep. Elijah Cummings and committee Democrats multiple times between 2012 and 2013, providing them information they requested about True the Vote, the 501(c)(4)
The heat in the IRS investigation just went up. Rep. Darrell Issa, head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter today to ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings in which he accuses Cummings of working to
The U.S. House Oversight Committee today released emails between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Democrat Minority Leader Elijah Cummings of the same committee detailing joint attempts to collect non-public information from True the Vote. According to the release obtained
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced yesterday that it will hold a vote to decide whether former I.R.S. employee Lois Lerner is in contempt of Congress on Thursday, April 10th. Lerner has twice been called before Congress to
In a letter sent today, Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, accuses ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings of acting as if he were a defense attorney for former IRS employee Lois Lerner. He also
House Democrats took to the floor on Thursday and lifted their iPads and smart phones with pictures of Darrell Issa (R-CA) over their heads as a show of support for Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who had his mic turned off
On the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Roland Martin interviewed Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) about House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) cutting off Cummings microphone this week at a hearing on the IRS scandal… At first Cummings accused Issa of
It was a performance for the ages. “You cannot have a one-sided investigation,” shouted Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “There is something absolutely wrong with that. And it’s absolutely un-American.” His
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing on the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profit applicants. The hearing, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), quickly devolved into chaos after former IRS official Lois Lerner repeatedly used the Fifth Amendment
As a committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) adjourned a House Oversight Hearing on Wednesday in which embattled former IRS official Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth in a hearing about the agencies abuses, ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) lashed
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is bringing Lois Lerner back to testify before Congress on the IRS scandal next week. Lerner, the key Obama IRS official at the center of the scandal where
Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote who was targeted by the IRS, FBI and other agencies, filed a formal ethics complaint against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD). Engelbrecht explained her reasoning on Thursday’s “The Kelly File” on the Fox News
One of the most high-profile victims of the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal is planning to unveil surprising new allegations about the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing this morning. Catherine Engelbrecht, the head