My District House Member

I am from Baltimore, Maryland in the seventh district. Our state senators are Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin. My house member is Elijah Cummings. Elijah Cummings is a democrat representative who sits on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transport , as well as serves as a ranking member in both the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Select Committee on Benghazi. Cummings has both a Leadership Pac and a Campaign Committee to raise money for his campaigns. Under these two fundraisers Cummings top industry donors are the Public Sector Unions, Real Estate, and Law Firms. His top individual donors are by Bosley Construction, the American Federation of Government Employees, and the Time Group.
Elijah Cummings has sponsored and cosponsored a lot of bills over the years since he was first elected in 1996. He usually sponsors around 20 bills and cosponsors on hundreds more each congressional year. Such sponsorship on issues ranged from the Federal Employees' Benefits Equity Act of 1999 to the Medicaid-SCHIP Dental Benefits Improvement Act of 2009. He has cosponsored bills from the Central American and Caribbean Refugee Adjustment Act of 1999 to the Anthrax Attacks Investigation Act. Currently, Elijah Cummings is sponsoring seventeen bills and cosponsoring on over three hundred additional bills. Some of the bills that he is sponsoring are the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, the Military Family Home Protection Act, and the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act of 2014. With the types of bills that Cummings sponsored and supported it is easy to see how he could vote the way he has on different issues. Lately Cummings has voted no or "nay" on many issues (that were still passed by the House) like the bill to adapt to changing crude oil market conditions, the Native American Energy Act, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016, and the Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act. He has not only been on the defense with his voting, voting yes or "aye" on many bills as well. Some of the bills that he has recently voted yes on are the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016, the bill (failed to pass) to Approve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, relating to the Nuclear Program of Iran, and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015. Elijah Cummings has been a dedicated and progressive representative for his district and he will be up for reelection in 2016.