Elijah Cummings: “The ability of people with disabilities to be included in every recreational opportunity is enshrined in the Americans…”

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

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.

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

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.