Elijah Cummings: “Thank you very much. Would the gentleman yield just for 30 seconds?”

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

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…

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.