Elijah Cummings: “I would hate to even imagine the Congress without women.”

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

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.

And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

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.