By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

Reportedly the White House also wanted Towns to be replaced. He graduated with honors from Baltimore City College in 1969. Joint Economic Committee
In December 2010 Edolphus Towns announced that he would not seek the position of Ranking Minority Member of the Oversight Committee in the next Congress even though his seniority and service as Chair would typically result in him filling this post.

He is a member of the Democratic Party. Elijah Eugene Cummings (born January 18 1951) is the U. The district includes just over half of Baltimore City as well as most of Howard County.