Mark Takano: “I urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 5943, as amended, and I reserve the balance of my time.”

"We should be investing in these students and the institutions that serve them—not eliminating the very programs that make their education possible," said Representative Takano.

We must fight for an America where the government does not use fear and intimidation to silence its own people.

I am disgusted by this political agenda that attacks the rights of school districts and parents to decide the policies of their schools in their own backyards.

We cannot allow the candidates who finance the most checks to dominate public discourse and drown out competing voices.