Elijah Cummings: “I want us to try to move towards trying to make a difference. I know that's why the chairman feels, too.”

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

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.

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

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.