Elijah Cummings: “Can you commit today to provide the committee with these documents?”

If we had a House and if we had a Senate that would pass legislation and we had a President that would sign it, this problem which is the subject of this hearing today could be fixed.

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 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.

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.