Kweisi Mfume

Congressman Kweisi Mfume has represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2020 (116th Congress-Present). Mfume previously represented the same district in Congress from 1987 to 1996 (100th-104th Congresses). Mfume has an extensive history of political involvement and community activism in Baltimore, Maryland where he served on the Baltimore City Council. In Congress, Mfume served on the Banking and Financial Services Committee and held the General Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee ranking seat. He also was a member of the Committee on Education and the Small Business Committee. In his third term, Mfume was chosen by the Speaker of the House to serve on the Ethics Committee and the Joint Economic Committee of the House and Senate. He was later elected chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. Mfume has consistently advocated business and civil rights legislation. He co-sponsored and helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, strengthened the Equal Credit Opportunity Law, and co-authored and successfully amended the Civil Rights Bill of 1991 to apply its provisions to U.S. citizens working for American-based companies abroad. Mfume left his Congressional seat to become President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP in 1996 after being unanimously elected to the post. He served there for nine years. Later he became Executive Director of the National Medical Association (NMA), founded in 1895 as the nation’s oldest African American Medical Association. In 2020, he was re-elected to Congress after winning a special election to fill the remainder of the term vacated by the death of Congressman Elijah Cummings. He currently serves on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee where he is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce; a member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation; and a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. He also serves on the House Committee of Foreign Affairs. Mfume earned a bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a master’s degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in International Studies.