Elijah Cummings
Democrat
MD
Representative, 7th District
Last year in office: 2019
Elijah Cummings is a former Democratic U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th Congressional District. Cummings first took office in Congress in 1996 and left office in 2019.
Elijah Cummings: Voting Record & Political Positions
Elijah Cummings's Voting Record at a Glance
- Legislative effectiveness: sponsored 178 bills and sponsored or cosponsored 4130, 150 of which were enacted into law.
Top Issues Elijah Cummings Votes On
- Taxation
- Health Insurance
- Immigration
- Defense Spending
- Infrastructure
- Criminal Justice
How Elijah Cummings Voted on Recent Bills
- Yea on “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019” (2019-08-01) — Passed
- Yea on “Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020” (2019-06-19) — Agreed to
- Not Voting on “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019” (2019-09-26) — Passed
- Not Voting on “Opposing the decision to end certain United States efforts to prevent Turkish military operations against Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria.” (2019-10-16) — Passed
- Not Voting on “A joint resolution relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019.” (2019-09-27) — Passed
- Not Voting on “Joint Task Force to Combat Opioid Trafficking Act of 2019” (2019-09-27) — Passed