Elijah Cummings: “There was no budget savings basis for his effort to rescind collective bargaining for public sector workers.”

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.

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.

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.