Elijah Cummings: “I want us to have high standards. I want us to set a model for the world. We are--this is the United States of America…”

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

Earlier this year, thanks to this committee's efforts, the House passed the Inspector General Access Act, co-sponsored by Chairman Cummings, Congressman Richmond, Congressman Hice, and Congressman Lynch, and hopefully, that will be given…

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.