Elijah Cummings: “I am infuriated that I have not been advised on March 4th.”

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…

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.

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.