Elijah Cummings: “I just believe with all my heart that we can do better.”

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.

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.