Elijah Cummings: “We will follow the facts wherever they lead, and partisan politics has no bearing on what we're doing.”

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

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

If we had a House and if we had a Senate that would pass legislation and we had a President that would sign it, this problem which is the subject of this hearing today could be fixed.

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