Elijah Cummings: “Then you are in trouble. You know, he threatens you with poor performance appraisals.”

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.

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…

The American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis.

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