Elijah Cummings: “Today, our Nation is entering its ninth day--the ninth day of House Speaker John Boehner's government shutdown.”

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

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

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.

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