Elijah Cummings: “I just refuse to believe that we cannot help these Americans who go out there every day, do the right thing.”

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.

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.

Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that.

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