Elijah Cummings: “I want to leave a better world than the one that I found. I want to leave a world with more opportunity.”

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.

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

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