Elijah Cummings: “I think this committee has to come to grips with what the strategy should be, and enact one.”

I am extremely proud that our committee is holding the first hearing on D.C. Statehood in the House of Representatives in more than 25 years.

I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.

If you wanted to keep your products away from kids, you would support holding bad businesses accountable for illegal sales, not adding loopholes.

I just want to make it clear, Madam Speaker, as I listened to the comments of our very distinguished minority leader, the fact is that what we are doing today is trying again to protect the integrity of this House and to protect the…