Elijah Cummings: “I want to thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly).”

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

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

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.

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…