Elijah Cummings

Democrat Elijah Cummings represents the 7th congressional district in Maryland. He is a member of the House Government Reform Committee, which conducted hearings on steroid use in Major League Baseball in 2008.http://www.house.gov/list/press/md07_cummings/20090209arod.shtml Preceded by Kweisi Mfume, Cummings has held office since 1996.http://cummings.house.gov/about/biography.shtml

Cummings serves on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on which he is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. He also serves on the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. He is also a member of the Joint Economic Committee and the House Task Force on Health Care Reform as well as the Congressional Black Caucus. He was formerly the chairman of this committee.http://cummings.house.gov/about/biography.shtml

Elijah Cummings was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and this is still his home town.http://cummings.house.gov/about/biography.shtml He attended Howard University, where he earned a bachelors degree in 1973 before going on to the University of Maryland for a degree in law.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pre-election/bios/1064.html?SITE=NPRELN&SECTION=PREELECTION&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT He worked as an attorney before pursuing politics and is a member of the New Psalmist Baptist Church.http://cummings.house.gov/about/biography.shtml

• Voted for expanding embryonic stem cell research in 2007.
• Voted for an additional $10.2 billion federal funding for education in 2007.
• Voted against authorizing military action in Iraq in 2002.
• Voted for redeploying U.S. troops out of Iraq in 2007.
• Voted for tax incentives for renewable energy in 2008.
• Voted for the regulation of the subprime mortgage industry.http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Elijah_Cummings.htm