Sadly, one of America’s great legislators has left us.
RIP Elijah Cummings.
His profile at Roll Call epitomizes the nature and grace of Cummings:
“I don’t have to be in top leadership to feed my soul,” the 63-year-old lawmaker said.
“I’ve never necessarily aspired to any leadership position,” he said. "But one thing I do know is that I did not want to be on the back bench. And the reason I didn’t want to be on the back bench is, I think, the more visible I am, the more effective I can be.”
Cummings is obsessive about making sure his actions yield maximum effective and efficient results. That’s something else he wants people to know about him: Those two adjectives — "effective" and "efficient" — underscore everything he does.
His top priority, he said, is to help the community where he was born and raised.
Some of Cummings recently enacted legislation via GovTrack
H.R. 2229 (115th): All Circuit Review ActH.R. 3031 (115th): TSP Modernization Act of 2017H.R. 5920 (114th): Whistleblower Protections for Contractors ActH.R. 1233 (113th): Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014H.R. 4197 (113th): All Circuit Review Extension ActH.R. 4152 (112th): Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012H.R. 5773 (111th): To designate the Federal building located at 6401 Security Boulevard in Baltimore, Maryland, commonly known as the Social Security Administration Operations Building, as the “Robert M. Ball ...