Elijah Cummings: “I thank you for agreeing to hold today's hearing and for working with us in a bipartisan way.”

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…

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

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

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