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June 20, 2018

Washington, D.C. (June 20, 2018)—Today, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings and all Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting documents on the proposed gag rule for the Title X National Family Planning Program, which would impede women's access to critical information about their healthcare.


June 19, 2018

Washington, D.C. (June 19, 2018)—Today, during a joint hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on the Judiciary regarding Hillary Clinton's emails, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings diverted from his prepared remarks to issue an impassioned and blunt condemnation of President Donald Trump's new policy of separating children from their parents at the border. Facing his Republican counterparts directly, he implored them to "stand up to President Trump" and to "stand up for those children."


June 19, 2018

WASHINGTON—Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. Elijah E.


June 15, 2018

Cummings Seeks Information from Energy PR Rep

Who Helped Pruitt Get Rose Bowl Tickets


June 14, 2018

Cummings, Pelosi, Hoyer, and Other Senior Democrats

Call on President Trump to Rescind Executive Orders that

Strip Key Protections for Whistleblowers


June 14, 2018

Cummings and Nadler Issue Statement on

DOJ IG Report on FBI Actions Before Election

Washington, D.C. (June 14, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on FBI activities prior to the 2016 election:


June 13, 2018

Top Dems Seek Information on Reports of Inequities and

Allegations of Harassment at Coast Guard Academy