Elijah Cummings: “Is it the case that protecting U.S. commercial shipping is no longer among the primary missions of the United States…”

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

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…

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

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