Elijah Cummings: “It is time, and it is time now, for the Republicans to end this taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.”

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.

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

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