Elijah Cummings actually said...

"All they want is one more chance to make their way to protect their families to live, and I do not know what is more American than that."

"I can't sit here as a Member of Congress and hear about somebody possibly dying and not do what I can to save them, and I think we all feel the same way, on both sides of the aisle."

"I welcome anybody who has gone down there and seen whatever you may have seen so that the Congress, I think, can be sensitive to what's going on."

"And so help me God, I'm going to do everything in our power and work with our entire committee to try to resolve these issues as fast as we possibly can."