Elijah Cummings: “If I did a rewind, if I took some of the positions that I guess you are taking, I wouldn't be here today.”

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

Earlier this year, thanks to this committee's efforts, the House passed the Inspector General Access Act, co-sponsored by Chairman Cummings, Congressman Richmond, Congressman Hice, and Congressman Lynch, and hopefully, that will be given…

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

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…