Elijah Cummings actually said...

It seems to me that what you're talking about is the law itself.

They're not asking for anybody to defend them. They're not asking for any awards for doing the right thing. They do it because it's the law.

I am here to emphatically say that that is not the case.

the whole idea of--the problem here is that there's been a constant, and what appears to be deliberate, effort to violate the Hatch Act.