Elijah Cummings: “The undersigned Attorneys General's right to express our grave concern over the threat of the integrity of the American…”

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.

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

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.