[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 166 (Monday, October 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H8283-H8284]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1930
                  HONORING CONGRESSMAN ELIJAH CUMMINGS

  (Mr. SARBANES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to remember a great American 
patriot, Elijah Cummings.
  On behalf of the people of Baltimore, I want to thank him for his 
incredible leadership, for his friendship to so many, for his 
mentorship of so many in the community and to me.
  I had the privilege for almost 12 years, the last 12 years of 
Elijah's life, to sit a few feet away from him in the

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Oversight and Reform Committee and to see what a national leader he 
was, how he fought for the left out and the locked out.
  I also had the opportunity to be with him on many occasions in 
Baltimore, to see how people responded to him, how they invested in his 
leadership. We will miss that dearly.
  I was thinking today as I drove from Baltimore through West 
Baltimore, the community he loved, about his fight for the soul of our 
democracy, and I had anxiety about if we can continue that fight 
without him. But it occurred to me that Elijah would not have left us 
when he did if he didn't believe that we had it within ourselves to 
finish that fight.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank Elijah for his inspiration. May his memory be 
eternal.

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