What Elijah Cummings left unfinished
EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHEN THE LATE REPRESENTATIVE Elijah Cummings was assessing new members for the House Oversight Committee, he met with New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young politician whom many of his colleagues had dismissed as a showboat. Ocasio-Cortez remembers the elder statesman sizing her up.
“He said, ‘I’m not here to play games,’” she told TIME.
