Elijah Cummings: “I have been pressing for our committee to investigate these cyber attacks.”

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

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.

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

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.