Elijah Cummings: “I really believe that we can do better. I just believe our Country is greater than that, that we can do better.”

Earlier this year, thanks to this committee's efforts, the House passed the Inspector General Access Act, co-sponsored by Chairman Cummings, Congressman Richmond, Congressman Hice, and Congressman Lynch, and hopefully, that will be given…

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.

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