Elijah Cummings Quotes

• African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aids, Female, Percentage

• By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation’s prosperity for generations yet unborn.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Children, Education

  Tags in Facilities

• Americans of our own time – minority and majority Americans alike – need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Guidance, Voting

• In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Health

  Tags in National, Minority

• It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Democratic, Journey

• More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communities, Drug, Impact

• The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor’s degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Census, Bureau, Fact

• Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

  Elijah Cummings

  Topics in Children

  Tags in American, Childhood

Elijah Cummings (8)

Birth:	18th January, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Elijah Eugene Cummings was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an American politician and lawyer. He is the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, serving since 1996. For 13 years, he served in the Maryland House of Delegates. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He graduated with honors from Baltimore City College in 1969. He graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He graduated from law school at the University of Maryland School of Law, receiving his J.D. in 1976. He practiced law for 19 years before first being elected to the House in the 1996 elections.

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