Elijah Cummings: “Let's remember what brings us together as people a whole for a better day than today.”

The American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

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.

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.