Elijah Cummings: “I wanted to take a moment to express my deep appreciation and respect for your staff and for my staff.”

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.

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

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

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