Elijah Cummings: “One thing I want to remind all of us is that we are Americans, everybody trying to do the best they can to protect our…”

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.

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.

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

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