Mike Honda

This bittersweet victory comes at the end of a 50-year legislative battle which has seen thousands of veterans lose their lives due to the passage of time. This year we must send a clear message to the surviving 18,000 Filipino and…

We know the Republican majority wants to adjourn and go home, but we shouldn't be going home until the work is done. Americans understand that concept. They stay and work until the job is done. So why don't the Republicans? Here we are…

I was going to start out by saying that I rise today in mourning, but I don't think it is about mourning. It is about celebrating Mark's life. We have heard all about Mark's character, his person, his presence in this Hall; and I think it…

By the end of today, 90 people in America will have died from gun violence. That is beyond tragic. That is heartbreaking. That is 90 too many. While House Republicans shamefully stand idle, I am proud to say that, in my district in the…

This week we return after an epic recess of House Republican inaction on stemming gun violence, and yet gun violence does not recess. Between Memorial Day and this past weekend, 4,100 Americans died from gun-related activities, and nearly…

Omar Mateen should not have had access to a gun, yet he walked into the Pulse nightclub and murdered 49 people and injured many more. Syed Farooq and Tashfeen Malik should not have had access to guns, but were able to buy several weapons…

Woman, I thank Chairman Simpson and Ranking Member Kaptur for their hard work on this bill. It is an honor to serve with them on the subcommittee. This bill contains many positive things that I support, like funding for the Army Corps of…

there has to be some sort of an apology to these folks who have been put through this and losing their jobs.

I think it is important that we actually focus in on what we are asking for and not have red herring arguments about this.

Do you think that it is time to have a conversation about rescheduling marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act?

I think that we need to keep moving forward. I am pushing this, but I appreciate, you know, our conversation and hope that we can continue this to a point where we can get rid of the 500,000 untested rape kits that are sitting on shelves…

I have serious concerns about the privacy implications also of the FBI's ongoing attempts to force Apple...

I understand that economic espionage is a real threat to American economic security and our ability to retain jobs here at home, but I am concerned that espionage threats from bad actors abroad are creating a climate in which both…

But we must provide adequate resources, funding, and collaborative efforts to ensure that the testing actually occurs to reduce the existing rape kit backlogs.

This impact that the war on drugs has had on levels of incarceration in our nation's prisons, both at the State and Federal level, this has been a particularly harsh impact on minority communities, many of which have seen large segments of…

I think COPS has a basis for improved community and police force relationships, that they understand working in conjunction with the communities is beneficial for everybody around, and we will learn a lot from them.

Native Americans are two and a half times more likely to experience violent crimes than other Americans.

But if they insist on hanging onto their policy and they will not honor detainers, and they will not share information, you know, don't ask for federal money unless you follow our Federal law.

Last year dealt with sexual assault kit testing and today there are estimated over 400,000 untested rape kits still collecting dust in the evidence room of law enforcement crime labs across this country.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility.

this is technology, but still it is a constitutional question, it seems to me, in terms of you are arguing security versus privacy clashing.

It is time to have missions that are dedicated to searching for the clues and signs of life that may have evolved in these alien worlds.

This is the time to be investing in NASA, not selling it short.

It is important that we have women involved because if it is purely men, we tend to think in certain ways.