Elijah Cummings: “I think I might be a little bit more trustful if I hadn't heard some of this before, if I hadn't read some of it before…”

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.

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.

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.