Elijah Cummings: “We simply want the whole truth.”

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

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

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.

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