Elijah Cummings: “I truly appreciate it. It is much more balanced, and I commend the chairman for agreeing to our request.”

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.

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

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