Elijah Cummings: “I'm going to yield the 45 seconds we have remaining to Mr. Lynch to close.”

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.

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.

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

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