Mark Takano: “I am a new Member of Congress. I am having to get my arms around this issue.”

We are not here simply to remember history. We are here because the work that began 63 years ago is unfinished.

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

America belongs to all of us. Let’s Go For Broke. Go all in for democracy. Go all in for equality. Go all in for freedom.

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