Elijah Cummings: “I will fight like hell for somebody in rural South Dakota or wherever to be able to have access to transportation.”

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.

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

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

And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.