Elijah Cummings: “I call upon MWAA today to continue to revise all of their internal practices, especially the code of ethics.”

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.

I am extremely proud that our committee is holding the first hearing on D.C. Statehood in the House of Representatives in more than 25 years.

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