Mike Honda

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 60, beginning on line 15, strike ``; and of which none of the funds may be used for grants for immigrant integration''…

This should be deeply troubling to Americans of all races and religions. An investigation specifically targeting a single religion implies, erroneously, a dangerous disloyalty, with one broad sweep of the discriminatory brush.

As these budget hearings are unfolding against the backdrop of the slash-and-burn continuing resolution on the floor, it is clear that this is a debate between two competing visions of this country: the Democratic vision of helping…

The Republicans are trying to build a straw man out of entitlement reform, but we know that for the next decade our budget deficits are driven by an endless war in Afghanistan and tax breaks for the wealthy.

The only way we can make it right is if we are honest about what has placed us in this predicament.

We all agree that the trajectories of our national deficit and debt are unsustainable and that they place our Nation's future in great peril.

Among the course corrections needed to address these problems are investments in the skills of the workforce, which I am going to simply call education, and policy changes to reduce our deficits and debt.

The trajectories of our national deficit and debt are unsustainable.

Unemployment, which is to me the key economic indicator for the well being of the American people, will remain stubbornly high and that these conditions will only improve gradually.

I think it is very important to note that among other investments, including encouraging the scaling up of U.S. manufacturing by incentivizing purchasing new machinery and investment, promoting R&D, rebuilding public infrastructure, you…

As chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, I urge my colleagues to support the DREAM Act this week. Failure to pass the DREAM Act would disproportionately impact the 1.5 million Asian students in our country. Hardworking…

In 5 seconds, Federal moneys cannot be used for State elections. State elections cannot be used for private kinds of elections. That is what they were saying. It is not about race.

I think that the state of California has benefitted by your work, but I think that the state of California and perhaps other states have suffered because of the impositions that Congress has placed upon you.

If the only currency our youngsters go to school with is time, and every day that we talk about things that should be, that could be, that isn't, then that is the investment that we lose from them and they get nothing out of it.

Is it not time to look at the public education as if it were a civil right?

I am a big supporter of drug courts. And believe that model has worked for some populations.

We need to engage India and China, we need to provide that leadership because, that is the right thing to do.

No, but we can be the leader. We can take the high road.

The lack or failure of political leadership is not an option.

We need more basic research, which we used to cut, and cut, and cut.

We have to be as policymakers clear on everything that we do and responsible to the future.

There is no magic in what they do, because the same thing that recent immigrants from Europe had done, it is called hard work and rigor.

It is difficult to teach innovation, Mr. Honda. But I think that an environment can be created where students could learn it.

American universities lose about half their students along the way.

We know good and well through the assessment what that child really needs, but we cannot afford it.