As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.

I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

Family is at the heart of everything I do.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

United is a much bigger challenge than Ajax. They're not just a big and famous club but also a worldwide brand, yet when you're inside, it's still a family place.

In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down.