Elijah Cummings: “I want to thank you, Ranking Member, for your statement, and I certainly join you in your words...”

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

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

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.

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.