Elijah Cummings: “We hold this hearing today at a time when our national economy is struggling and the U.S. Postal Service is not immune…”

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

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

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.