Mike Honda: “Seed funding is essential. I talked to--in each of the venues that I visited, the leadership in those communities told…”

I am a huge fan as a private sector person of this program, because as Congressman Honda said, most of the institutes are funded with some taxpayer dollars.

I share my colleague's frustrations with this year's proposed discretionary budget from the President that recommends scaling back our support for NASA.

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.

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