Elijah Cummings: “I hope today's hearing helps shed light on the continuing practices that prevent full equality in the workplace.”

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…

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.

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

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