Elijah Cummings: “I want dates for those things; I don't want to just wait until the end.”

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

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.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.