Elijah Cummings: “I have often said that voting for the Affordable Care Act was the most important vote of my career.”

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

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.

If we had a House and if we had a Senate that would pass legislation and we had a President that would sign it, this problem which is the subject of this hearing today could be fixed.