Elijah Cummings: “Do you agree that the State Department's internal document management systems are not ideal?”

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.

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.

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.

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