Politicians from both parties are remembering Rep. Elijah Cumming’s legacy following his passing RIPElijah
"Congressman Cummings was an honorable man who proudly served his district and the nation with dignity, integrity, compassion and humility," Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the Maryland Democratic Party Chair, said in a statement about her husband."He worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation’s diversity was our promise, not our problem.
Cummings was born in Baltimore in 1951, as one of seven children; his parents, who were sharecroppers, moved to the city in the late 1940s, thein Washington, D.C., and later attended the University of Maryland School of Law. A Democrat, Cummings was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, after serving in the Maryland House of Delegates and working as a lawyer in his home state. During his 14 years serving in the state legislature, he would eventually become Maryland's first Black speaker pro tempore.
As a member of Congress, he served as the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but much of his work also centered young people in his home district, which
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