Elijah Cummings: “We're better than that. We are a better country than that. And we are a better committee than that.”

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

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.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

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.