Mark Takano: “I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I ask all of my colleagues to join me in passing…”

“George Retes is a U.S. citizen and an Iraq War veteran, and yet he was treated like an enemy by his own government,”

"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 fight for an America where nobody feels that they have to carry a passport to prove they belong.”

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.