Elijah Cummings: “With that, I urge all Members to vote in favor of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

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.

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that.

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