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Clinton’s top supporter in Benghazi hearing: Rep. Elijah Cummings
The Washington Post ^ | October 22, 2015 | Paul Schwartzman

Posted on 10/23/2015 9:09:33 AM PDT by EveningStar

As she strode through the grand double doors leading to the Thursday hearing by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the first hand that Hillary Rodham Clinton shook belonged to Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s highest-ranking Democrat and her most vociferous ally on the panel.

Minutes later, Cummings (D-Md.) delivered an unbridled attack on the Republican-led committee’s investigation, which he described as an “abusive effort” to “derail Secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”

“It is time, and it is time now,” Cummings bellowed, his rich baritone filling the crowded, high-ceilinged hearing room, “for the Republicans to end this taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; elijahcummings; hillaryclinton
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1 posted on 10/23/2015 9:09:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Pretty disgusting. He didn’t give a damn about the 4 guys that died....or the truth.


2 posted on 10/23/2015 9:12:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: EveningStar
He rivals Maxine Waters and the one from Texas with the beehive hairdo as being the biggest clown in Congress.

Completely useless. Worse than useless, actually, since he actively tries to harm the nation.

3 posted on 10/23/2015 9:14:57 AM PDT by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: EveningStar
Clinton’s top supporter in Benghazi hearing: Rep. Elijah Cummings

Elijah (Mo Free Stuff) Cummings is a disgrace to America. How he can support Hitlery sitting there and lying her ass off is incomprehensible.

4 posted on 10/23/2015 9:17:19 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Sacajaweau

Remember he is the mental giant that thinks too many marines can cause an island to turn over...


5 posted on 10/23/2015 9:19:14 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: EveningStar

The man can’t even speak proper English. How does he even hold a position on such an important committee?


6 posted on 10/23/2015 9:21:21 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: pfflier

Actually, I think it was a black Congressman from Georgia who worried about Guam tipping over because of too many military bases, not Cummings (Baltimore’s gift to the House of Representatives).


7 posted on 10/23/2015 9:24:39 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: EveningStar

I keep wishing Gowdy would just go nuts and start slapping Cummings silly....


8 posted on 10/23/2015 9:25:33 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: EveningStar

Cummings is the lowest form of scum there is as well as having the IQ of a brick.


9 posted on 10/23/2015 9:26:06 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: EveningStar
his rich baritone

He sometimes reaches his sweet soprano. What a range!

10 posted on 10/23/2015 9:26:25 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: pfflier

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Johnson

Nope, over here over here.

Hank Johnson is who you’re thinking of.


11 posted on 10/23/2015 9:27:43 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: EveningStar

lol, or thinking Silver Back.


12 posted on 10/23/2015 9:31:40 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: EveningStar

On March 18, 2013, Cummings introduced the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 (H.R. 1233; 113th Congress), a bill that would amend federal law regarding the preservation, storage, and management of federal records. One provision would require that all government employees using personal email accounts to do business copy their emails to an official government record system to be recorded and archived.

******

Cummings married 2008...

Maya Rockeymoore

http://globalpolicysolutions.com/portfolio-items/maya-rockeymoore-president-and-ceo/

founder and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a boutique social change strategy firm in Washington, DC. At the age of 27, Texas-born Rockeymoore accepted the role of Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor under Congressman Charles Rangel.

Leaving the House Ways and Means Committee for a promotion in the Congressman’s office was an indication of the success that would follow in Rockeymoore’s career. Subsequent to her service in that office, she squeezed in the time to complete a PhD in political science before going on to serve as the Senior Resident Scholar for Health and Income Security at the National Urban League and as the Vice President of Research and Programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Learning and growing from the sum of her collective experiences, she then set about the work of founding her own firm in 2005.


13 posted on 10/23/2015 9:32:10 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: EveningStar
If we suffer a horrible fate and she is elected, I hope she offers him an ambassador appointment. Wonder if he would accept...
14 posted on 10/23/2015 9:32:59 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: Califreak

Oops, wrong idiot, sorry.


15 posted on 10/23/2015 9:33:18 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: EveningStar

NEW EMAILS Could Send Democrat Elijah Cummings to Prison for Targeting Voter Rights Group

Jim Hoft Mar 5th, 2015 12:26 am

Democrat Leader Elijah Cummings Could Face Up to Five Years in Prison for Illegal Attacks on True the Vote–

Last April House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a report implicating Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in colluding with the IRS and Lois Lerner against the nonpartisan voters rights group “True the Vote.”

Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of “True the Vote,” testified before Congress in February.

She was targeted by FBI, IRS, ATF, and OSHA after she filed for tax exempt status for her voters rights group.

Engelbrecht said this during her testimony before Congress and Cummings,

“Frankly, to sit before my accuser and be silent in the face of what he did was unconscionable.”

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings’ staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, along with five Subcommittee Chairmen are demanding Cummings provide an explanation for the staff inquiries to the IRS about True the Vote and for his denial that his staff ever contacted the IRS about the group.

“Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, communication records between your staff and IRS officials – which you did not disclose to Majority Members or staff – indicates otherwise,” the letter to Cummings states. “As the Committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose, in contempt of Congress, you have an obligation to fully explain your staff’s undisclosed contacts with the IRS.”

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/new-emails-could-send-democrat-cummings-to-prison-for-targeting-voter-rights-group/


16 posted on 10/23/2015 9:36:09 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: EveningStar
I think I have Cummings figured out. Let's see...

Village Idiot + Carnival Worker + Dunning-Kruger + Pathological Liar
17 posted on 10/23/2015 9:37:37 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: TontoKowalski

Said texas idiot was visible just behind hitlery, as well as many other apparat from the “naac...liberal people”, where race does not matter but a well greased cash payout and walkaround money... does. Dere girlfraind be on de stand.

Orchestrated. To say the least.


18 posted on 10/23/2015 9:39:00 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: kcvl

I saw that and wondered if he was trying to keep himself out of jail by assisting the beast.


19 posted on 10/23/2015 9:39:30 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: pfflier

No, not him, but one of his ilk. But the same kind of feral acuity is at work.


20 posted on 10/23/2015 9:39:52 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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