Elijah Cummings: “May I inquire how much time I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/2\ minutes…”

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

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

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

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…