Elijah Cummings (D-MD)

House Passes Rep. Elijah Cummings Bill to Require Agencies and the White House to Preserve Email Records

Sentinel News WireMarch 13, 2019

Washington, D.C. (Mar. 13, 2019)—The House of Representatives passed without opposition H.R. 1582, the Electronic Message Preservation Act, authored by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, to modernize how the federal government preserves email records. “I introduced this bill with the goal of modernizing the Federal and Presidential Records Acts and to help ensure that email records from federal agencies and the White House are preserved,” Chairman Cummings said. “This legislation would provide accountability to encourage every president to have the controls in place that are necessary to preserve emails and other electronic records.

Rep. Elijah Cummings Set to Become Powerful Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman in 2019

Associated Press -BEN TERRISDecember 4, 2018

U.S. House of Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) WASHINGTON (AP) — When the word of the Lord came to Elijah, it arrived on a slip of paper tucked in a stranger’s bra. In 2017, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings had been laid up in a Johns Hopkins hospital bed for two months, crippled by pain after a difficult recovery from a heart valve replacement, when an interloper came bursting through the door, calling his name. “She reaches into her bosom and pulls out a note,” Cummings said recently. “She says, ‘The Lord has been waking me all night. … It was so

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Harris, Thompson, Nadler, Lofgren, Beatty Lead Lawmakers in Letter to Urge Administration to Halt Deportation of Black Mauritanians

Sentinel News ServiceOctober 12, 2018

There are approximately 3,000 Black Mauritanians in the United States, most of whom arrived in the 1990s after their government forcibly expelled them and stripped them of their citizenship on the basis of their race and ethnicity. So far in fiscal year 2018, the Trump administration has deported 79 Mauritanians, up from eight in FY 2017.