Elijah Cummings: “Mr. Chairman, you made a very strong commitment at the end of last year, end of the term.”

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

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.

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…

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.