Elijah Cummings: “The American Legion applauds Representative Cummings for his leadership and efforts to tackle and address this issue.”

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

The American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis.

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.