Elijah Cummings: “A stronger democracy. A stronger democracy.”

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

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

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…

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