Mark Takano

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On rollcall vote No. 405, I inadvertently voted ``aye.'' I intended to vote ``no.'' (By unanimous consent, Mr. Dent was allowed to speak out of order.) Washington Kastles Charity Classic

Thank you, Mr. Miller. I look forward to working with you. Mr. Chairman, I have submitted an amendment with Representative Gibson to H.R. 5, which would return annual testing to pre-No Child Left Behind levels. However, H.R. 5 is just so…

I wish to congratulate my Republican colleagues. They really caught us off guard on this one. They have gone above and beyond the high jinks that they pulled to get this farm bill to the floor. And while they were at it, they willfully…

Point of parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Speaker, is it in order to appeal your ruling? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will advise the gentleman there has been no ruling. There is a pending demand for words to be taken down. The Clerk will…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $40,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $20,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Takano

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $245,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Perry

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Nuclear Energy…

Well, I thank my colleague, Mr. Garamendi of California. We're both Californians. What this will do is further burden many of my students who are already burdened with a great deal of debt load from the University of California. But there…

So much of the focus, as you say, does go back to education, the need to find effective ways to educate all the immigrant children. If you could leave that poster up just a little longer, there are investments we need to make in our basic…

It's my pleasure. You have seven points to our economic agenda. Really, comprehensive immigration reform should be the eighth one. The wealth of our country really is in the skills and knowledge of our people. We need to find the pathway…

I want to take a little different slant on this, if I might, John and Rush. I actually want to turn to a topic, and the reason why I want to turn to this topic is because of what the Senate is doing, what it was doing yesterday and today…

Well, it certainly hurts our economy in that way. They're going to delay buying a car; they're going to delay buying a home; they're going to delay starting a family with this debt overhanging. Beyond the interest rates, I also believe we…

The compounding effects on that amount of debt is going to seriously add to those students who will take, say, public service jobs or jobs in teaching, or jobs in the public sector, nonprofits. It will severely limit the kind of employment…

I did actually take on some more debt to get my master's degree before I came here. Two years before I came to Congress I completed my master's degree, and it was a 2-year master's program. Because of my income as a teacher, many years as…

Most of us come from immigrant stock. I think you're Basque Italian. My forebears came from Japan. We, ourselves, are examples of the striving of generations. I'm pretty sure your parents, as well as mine, instilled the importance of…

What is desperately needed is funding mechanisms similar to Title V grants and pass H.R. 331 authored by Subcommittee Ranking Member Mark Takano and Congressman Ken Calvert.

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