Elijah Cummings: “The President also directed the Archivist and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to craft a modernized…”

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

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

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.

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.