Elijah Cummings: “There is a systematic effort by some Republican officials to obstruct implementation of the Affordable Care Act.”

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

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.

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

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.