Elijah Cummings: “One of Dodd-Frank's top priorities was to bring these businesses and products into the regulatory sunlight.”

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.

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.

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.