Mike Honda: “I support this process, and I hope my colleagues will support my efforts to make it the permanent solution to the debt…”

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

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.

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

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.