Elijah Cummings: “We want to be effective and efficient. Is there any agency that can identify who these people are that need this…”

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.

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.

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