Elijah Cummings: “The bill requires that records be disclosed under FOIA unless agencies can demonstrate 'specific identifiable harm.'”

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

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

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.