Elijah Cummings: “It's clear that our diplomats are in some very dangerous situations. I think we all agree on 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.

And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

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.