Michael Makoto Honda (born June 27, 1941) is an American politician and former educator. Initially involved in education in California, he was first active in politics in 1971, when the mayor of San Jose Norman Mineta appointed Honda to the Town Planning Commission. After holding another position, Honda was elected to the Board of Trustees of Santa Clara County in 1990, and to the California State Assembly in 1996, where he served until 2001. A Democrat, he worked in Congress from 2001 to 2017.
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Early life and teaching
Third-generation Japanese American ("sansei"), Honda was born in 1941 in Walnut Grove, California, son of Fusako and Giichi Byron Honda. His grandparents came from Kumamoto prefecture and immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, and his parents were born in California.
When he was one year old, he and his family were sent to Camp Amache, an American Japanese internment camp in southeastern Colorado. In 1953, his family returned to California, where they became farmers of strawberry harvest at the Blossom Valley in San Jose.
Honda started in Andrew P. Hill High School, then moved to, and graduated from, San Jos? High Academy. He entered San Jos? State University, but interrupted his studies from 1965 to 1967 to serve at the United States Peace Corps in El Salvador, where he learned to speak Spanish. He returned to San Jose State, where in 1968 he received a bachelor's degree in Biological and Spanish Sciences. He earned a master's degree in Education from San Jose State in 1974.
In his 30-year career as an educator, Honda is a science teacher, headmaster in two public schools, a member of the school board, and he conducts educational research at Stanford University.
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Political career
Teaching and country position
In 1971, San Jose Mayor Norman Mineta appointed Honda to the Town Planning Commission. In 1981, Honda was elected a member of the San Jose United School Board. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of Santa Clara County in 1990, and to the California State Assembly in 1996, where he served until 2001.
DNC and national position
In the United States House of Representatives election, 2000, Honda won the Democratic nomination for the 15th District, which was once represented by Norm Mineta. In 2000, Honda won by 12 points. In November 2003, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe appointed Honda as Vice Chairman of the DNC. In February 2005, Honda was elected vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee under the leadership of Howard Dean. In 2009, Honda was re-elected for a second term as deputy chairman of the DNC, under the leadership of former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine; he serves in this role until 2013.
He remains an incumbent in elections produced in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Due to redistricting after the US Census 2010, Honda began representing the 17th congress district of California at the start of the 113rd Congress on January 3, 2013. This district combining the Silicon Valley, which is the only Asian-majority American district in the continent of the United States. This district includes all or part of the city Cupertino, Fremont, Milpitas, Newark, Santa Clara, San Jose, and Sunnyvale. He won again in 2014. He lost the election of California's 17th district elections in 2016 to Ro Khanna.
Initial and caucus committees
From 2001 to 2007, Honda served on the House of Science, Space and Technology Committee of the United States and became a ranking member of the Energy Subcommittee from 2005-07. He also served on the US House Committee on Transport and Infrastructure from 2001-07. In 2007, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Honda to the US House Committee on Allocation. From 2011-13, he became a ranking member of the Legislative Branch Fund Subcommittee. From 2001 to 2003, and again from 2011-13, Honda was also appointed to serve on the House Budget Committee.
Honda is a member of the following committees, commissions, and caucuses (and others):
- The American Household Committee on Allocation
- United States House Allocation Trade, Justice, Science and Related Agent Subcommittee (Member Rank)
- United States Rights Allocation to Manpower, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
- Congress of the Caucus of Asia Pacific America (Chair Emeritus from 2004-2010)
- Congressional Anti-Bullying Caucus (Founder and Chairman)
- LGBT Equality Caucus (Vice Chairman and Founding Member)
- Congressional Hepatitis Caucus (Co-Chair)
- Congressional Progressive Caucus (Vice Chairman for New Members)
- New Media Working Group on Caucus Democracy (Co-Chair)
- Congressional Ethiopia Caucus (Founder and Chairman)
- Executive Committee of Congress in China (Appointed as Commissioner since 2005)
Main allocation
By August 2015, Honda had earned more than $ 1.3 billion in allocations since 2001.
Some of Honda's most important appropriations are for the expansion of the BART system into Silicon Valley. For five years at the Home Transport Committee, he earned $ 11 million in direct amounts attributed to bills. Also during his time on the committee he facilitated the qualification of the BART project for the New Start Program, which authorized another $ 900 million, the first $ 400 million Honda could complete over a three-year FY2012-14 period. During the mid-term electoral cycle of 2014, Honda's opponent Ro Khanna alleged that Honda only earned $ 2 million for the project. In response, a number of local officials including a member of Congress, a State Senator, former US Transport Secretary, and former chairman of the Lembah Transportation Authority, sent an open letter Khanna campaign to deny his claim and requested that they improve the language of their campaign..
$ 11 million in direct allocation is part of:
- H.R. 2673 (FY2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act, becomes Public Law 108-199)
- H.R. 4818 (FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act, becomes Public Law 108-447)
- H.R. 3058 (Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, Judiciary, and Independent Agenda Licensing Act for 2006, became Public Law 109-115)
$ 400 million from the New Start Program is allocated as follows:
- $ 100 million for FY 2012 at H.R. 2112, the Continuation and Continuation Act Continues, 2012, which became Public Law 112-55
- $ 150 Jt for FY 2013 in HG 933, the Consolidation and Continuation Continuation Act of 2013, which became Public Law 113-6
- $ 150 million for FY 2014 in H.R. 3547, the Consolidated Use Act, 2014, which became Public Law 113-76.
Legislation
Increase minimum wage
Honda has long been an organized labor supporter, and has supported many bills to create decent wages. In 2013 and 2014, he sponsored the Native American Living Wage Act (H.R. 229), the WAGES Act (H.R. 650), and the Minimum Wage Law (H.R.1010), which would raise the federal minimum wage. Honda is also a supporter of the San Jose ballot initiative that managed to raise the city's minimum wage to $ 10 per hour.
Defense
As the former Afghan Task Force Chief for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and former Chairman of the Joint Peace and Security BPK, Congress Honda consistently criticized the war strategy through a series of congressional directives, legislation, issuing opinion pieces ("Alternative Strategies for Obama's Afghan Agenda", "A Different Kind of Surge "), and letters of Congress to the Administration. Honda advocates the regular withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan and a significant reorganization of US aid to focus on strengthening government institutions, capacity building, economic development and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. Honda criticized the Obama administration for failing to seek Congressional approval for a US military operation in Libya. He is very critical of the widespread use of drones and is a sponsor of the Lethal Openness Act (H.243) which calls for an annual report on the number of civilians and combatants killed and wounded by drone strikes.
Education
In 2008, Honda worked with Senator Barack Obama to introduce the Enhanced STEM Education Act. Honda introduced the Home version, H.R. 6104, and Obama introduced the Senate version, S.3047, on the same day.
The Act seeks to improve coordination between state and federal governments to improve STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) by creating committees on STEM education in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the STEM Office in the Department of Education, institutionalizing the Voluntary State Consortium for STEM education, and creating the National STEM Education Research Center. Parts of this bill (in particular, creating a committee on STEM education in OSTP), as well as the INVENT Honda Act (which will develop curriculum tools to be used in teaching innovation and creativity at the K-16 level), are eventually included in America COMPETES Act reauthorization, which President Obama signed into law on January 4, 2011.
Honda leads Congressional authorization to the Commission on Equity and Excellence, a commission that begins in 2011 and reports its findings to the Secretary of Education by the end of 2012. The committee is a federal advisory committee hired by Congress, operating under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) ; 5 U.S.C., App.2. The Commission has 27 members from diverse backgrounds, including education, law, taxation, government, business, and civil rights. The committee meets 17 times in Washington, DC and across the country. In November 2012, the commission presented its findings in a report entitled "For Each and Every Child: Strategies for Equity and Educational Excellence." This finding focuses on five recommendations: (1) school financing restructuring, with a focus on equitable resources; (2) supporting qualified teachers and school leaders; (3) support early childhood education; (4) promoting increased parental involvement; and, (5) addressing changes in accountability and governance in the education system. Opposed by special interests, including teacher unions, the commission's recommendations are ignored.
Environment
Honda secures millions of dollars in federal funding for clearance and demolition of former Almaden Air Force Station over Mt. Umunhum. Contaminated with hazardous materials of standard use during military use (lead paint, asbestos, etc.), the Site is remediated, demolished and scheduled to open for public access in spring 2017. Honda also advocates for programs such as Land and the Water Conservation Fund.
In 2014, Honda introduced the Climate Change Education Act (H.R. 4461), a law aimed at enhancing public understanding of the impact of greenhouse gases on the environment and the steps individuals and communities can take to combat the global warming crisis.
Faith and religion
In 2014, Honda introduced the Freedom of Faith Act (H.R. 4460).
Honda has been a defender of American Muslim civil rights. Immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Honda spoke at an American Muslim Alliance (AMA) convention in October 2001. He told those present not to change their identities or names. "My last name is Honda.You can not be more Japanese than that." The congressman remembered what he and his parents especially had to go through when Pearl Harbor was attacked. "We were taken in a vehicle with closed windows, we did not know where we were taken."
In the controversy of the Qur'anic oath of the 110th Congress of the United States, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) issued a letter to his constituents who expressed his view that the decision of Keith Ellison's Representative-Election (D-MN) to use the Quran in his swearing-in ceremony was a threat to "traditional values ​​and beliefs to the United States. I am afraid that in the next century we will have more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt a strict immigration policy ". In response, Honda wrote a response to Goode expressing his surprise and violation with the letter and stating "No one should be labeled as un-American based on his religion, and it's outrageous to throw insults at Ellison's elected Representative purely because of his religious background. "
Government reform
In 2007, Honda chose Honest Leadership and the Open Government Act of 2007, which was the legislative response to Jack Abramoff's scandal and introduced a new comprehensive transparency requirement for lobbyists and Congressmen. In 2012, he sponsored H.R. 1148, Trade Stopped at the Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, which criminalizes insider trading by Members of Congress and requires a lot of disclosure. He chose H.Res. 895, who created the first independent ethics office, the Congressional Ethics Office.
Health care
Honda has advocated the expansion of health coverage for all through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and is a major supporter of public choice. As Chair of the Congress of the Asia-Pacific Congress, Honda succeeded in ensuring that the ACA overcame differences in racial and ethnic health, including improvements in data collection, and measures to increase the number of healthcare providers from diverse backgrounds.
As Chairman and Chairman of the Emeritus of the Asia-Pacific Congress, he sponsored and supported the Health Care Equality and Accountability Act, which would expand access to care for individuals with limited English language skills, increase the diversity of health workers, and encourage further study of problems minority health. As a member of TriCaucus with the Congress of the Black Caucus and Congressional Congressional Caucus, Honda has introduced a law focusing on health inequalities in relation to annual health disparity meetings.
Honda has led efforts to tackle tuberculosis by seeking changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formula for direct funding for tuberculosis and education treatment to include highly affected districts. He succeeded in obtaining the language of the report in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill 2009 to have CDC review its funding distribution policy.
Honda has been a leader in Congress for viral hepatitis and founded and co-led Congressial Hepatitis Caucus. He is a sponsor of the Viral Hepatitis Testing Act (HR 3723), which will authorize new prevention and testing programs for hepatitis B and hepatitis C, and apply screening for veterans for hepatitis C. He also sponsors the Viral Hepatitis Testing Act (HR 3381 ). ) at the 112th Congress, Viral Hepatitis and the Liver Cancer Control and Prevention Act (HR 3974) at the 111th Congress, and the National Hepatitis B Act (HR 3944) at the 110th Congress.
Honda has supported mobile health technology innovations and introduced the Health Care Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act of 2013 (H.R. 2363).
The bill establishes a Wireless Health Office at the FDA, a reward grant for effective product development, processes, or structures that increase the use, especially by patients, health information technology, and provide professional medical tax incentives to apply quality health information. technology in their practice.
Honda has been an advocate for women's health including supporting provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act such as the abolition of gender-based discrimination in insurance rates, recognizing that being a woman is not a pre-existing condition that should force women to pay a higher premium.. Honda opposes the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would prohibit the use of federal funds "to pay for abortion or to cover any part of the health plan cost that includes abortion coverage" except in cases of rape, incest or harm to mother's life. The amendment was dropped by co-authors Rep. Bart Stupak in exchange for an executive order promised by President Obama that will address the concerns of Stupak-Pitts amendment supporters.
Honda has been supporting Medicare and Medicaid programs throughout its career, fighting for the health rights of the elderly and low-income families. He introduced the People's Budget, a budget alternative to Congressional Progressive Caucus 2012, which will keep Medicare and Medicaid solvents while covering national debt within 10 years.
Honda supports the permanent removal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and sponsors the Payment Modernization Act of Payment Provider SGR and Medicare 2014 (H.R. 4015) that will revoke SGR and improve the physician's payment system to appreciate the value of the volume.
Human rights
Regarding the issue of women's comfort, in 2007 Honda filed US H.Res. 121, stating that Japan must formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unambiguous manner, refuting any claims that women's comfort issues have never occurred, and educating the present and future generations "of this terrible crime while following the recommendations of the international community with respect to 'comfort women'. "
Honda stated, "the purpose of this resolution is not to insult or embarrass Japan." On July 30, 2007, the House of Representatives passed a Honda resolution after 30 minutes of debate, in which no opposition was voiced. Honda quoted on the floor said, "We must teach future generations that we can not let this happen, I always believe that reconciliation is the first step in the healing process." Honda subsequently secured the language of the report in the 2014 Consolidated Use Bill (submitted July 2013) urging the Secretary of State to encourage the Government of Japan to address the issues raised in H.Res.121. President Obama signed the draft bill into law on January 17, 2014.
Honda is working on the abolition of human trafficking. He sponsored the Fraud Abolition and Foreign Trade Act 2013 (H.R. 3344). The bill addresses angry recruiters who use international labor recruitment as a medium for trafficking in persons. On January 23, 2014, Honda organized a training at San Jose International Airport for airport employees and airlines on how to detect signs of human trafficking.
Honda is a sponsor of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Modernization of the Immigration Act (H.R.15), which requires comprehensive immigration reforms to enhance high-skilled visa, reunite families, and provide citizenship channels for those living in the shadows.
LGBT issues
Honda has been recognized as a long-standing supporter of equality for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenderers, with a 100% rating of the Human Rights Campaign since 2001. HRC supports Honda for re-election 2014. In the 1990s, it supported the benefits of same-sex partners as Superintendent of Santa Clara County. In 2008, he was one of the founders of the Congressional Equality Congress, when there were only two open gay congressmen. He opposes the use of taxpayer funds to protect the Defense of Marriage Act in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2013, Honda worked with Mayor Campbell Evan Low to raise awareness of the ban on blood donors from gay and bisexual men. In 2015, Honda revealed in a speech at a Brave Conversation event, a one-day symposium that discusses how administrators can work to make their school safer for their students, that his granddaughter Malisa is transgender. "As an individual, and as an educator, I have experienced and witnessed bullying in its various forms, and as a jichan, or grandfather, a transgender grandson, I hope my grandchildren can feel safe going to school fearlessly, oppressed I refuse to be a spectator while millions of people deal with the effects of bullying every day. "
Manufacturing
In 2013, Honda introduced the Market-Based Incentives Manufacturing Act (H.R. 615), one of the main bills in the Democratic Party, Make it in America Agenda, which will create a private sector expert commission to appoint technologies that change the market. This technology will be eligible for consumer tax credit as long as they are made in the United States. Honda introduced the Scaling Up Manufacturing Act (HH 616). The bill will give the company a 25% tax credit on the costs associated with building their first manufacturing facility in the United States.
Honda is a vocal supporter of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovations proposed by President Obama to help revitalize American manufacturing. He is a sponsor of the bipartisan Revitalization of the American Manufacturing Innovation Act (H.R. 2996) and has urged President Obama to deploy a manufacturing center in Silicon Valley to focus on domestic development of the next generation semiconductor manufacturing tool.
Honda uses its position as a member of the House and Trade Allocations Committee, Justice, Science Subcommittee to prioritize funding for the National Institute of Standards and the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) technology program that works with small and medium manufacturers to help them create and retain jobs, , and save time and money.
Science and technology
As a Representative for the heart of Silicon Valley, Honda has been heavily involved in technology and nanotech policy for many years. He has supported the principle of network neutrality, and is a sponsor of the Open Preservation Internet Act (H.R. 3982).
Honda critical of the National Security Agency surveillance of electronic communications as a violation of privacy. He is the giver of the original sponsor of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Meeting the Rights and End Eavesdropping, collection Dragnet and Control Act Online (USA FREEDOM ACT - HR 3361) that seeks to control the collection of data by the NSA, increase the transparency of the Court of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, giving businesses the ability to release information about FISA requests, and create an independent constitutional lawyers to argue cases before the FISC. Honda has been a supporter of transparency and government intelligence have pushed to require top-line intelligence spending was expressed during the annual budget submission to Congress through his position as cosponorship of Budget Transparency Act Intelligence (HH 3855).
In 2002, he introduced one of the first nanotechnology bills in Congress, Nanoscience and the Nanotechnology Advisory Board Act of 2002, which sought to set up a Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board to advise the President on various policy issues. Such boards are recommended by the National Research Council in its review of the National Initiative of Nanotechnology, Small Miracles, Borderless Borders.
In 2003, he worked with the late Chairman of the Science Committee, Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), to introduce the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003.
The bill is officially federal investment in nanotechnology research and development, restructuring the National Nanotechnology Initiative to improve inter-institutional coordination and level of input from outside experts in the field, and lay the path to address new social, ethical, philosophical, legal, environmental issues that may arise. H.R. 766 adopted by the US House of Representatives on 7 May 2003, signed into law on 3 December 2003, and until now has been funded nearly $ 4 billion.
Honda continued its interest in nanotechnology by organizing the Blue Ribbon Tasks on Nanotechnology with later controller Steve Westly in 2005. The group met several times to discuss and develop strategies to promote the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of California as nationwide and worldwide. nanotechnology research center, development and commercialization. Under the direction of Chairman Scott Hubbard, who later became Director of the Ames National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research Center, the Task Force spent a year developing recommendations that would ensure California's leading position in what could be a trillion-dollar economic sector. The recommendations are included in the BRTFN report, Think Big on Small Thinking.
Honda developed two laws based on reports: 1) Investment Law of Nanomanufaktur in 2005 and 2) Nanotechnology Progress and New Opportunity Act.
Many of the provisions of these bills are included in larger laws, the 2009 National Nanotechnology Amendment Amendment Act and the US COMPETITION MAINTENANCE Act, which authorizes the House of Representatives at the 111th Congress.
Mike Honda was recognized by the Foresight Institute, who gave him the Foresight Institute Government Award in 2006.
Tax Credit Research and Development
Members of the Honda Congress have supported the expansion and creation of a permanent Research and Development tax credit, and in the 113th Congress are bonsartisan sponsorship of HR 4438, American Research and Competitiveness Act 2014. He cites research credits, "the best incentive in the tax code for ensuring that companies continue to conduct their R & D in the US "
Seniors and pension security
Honda has been a supporter of vocals to expand its Social Security program. In the 113th Congress, Honda introduced HR 3118, the Strengthening Social Security Act, with Congressman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and Rush Holt (D-NJ), which will increase the benefits to today's beneficiaries, much of the individual income can be paid into Social Security, changing the benefit formula to increase payments by about $ 70 per month, and adopting a higher cost of living adjustment called CPI-E, designed to reflect health care costs for seniors.
Also at Congress 113, Honda wrote HR 4202, the CPI-E Act 2014, which will apply the CPI-E to index a federal pension plan other than Social Security, to include programs such as civil service pensions, military pensions, Supplemental Security Income, veteran pensions and compensation , and other pension plans with COLAs triggered directly by Social Security or civil service pensions. As a member of the Congressional Progressive Budget Task Force, Honda also incorporated this CPI-E provision into the CPC FY 2015 Budget, entitled "Better Off Budget." Honda said during a floating debate on the CPC budget, that the provision was intended to be the first step to implementing CPI-E for all federal pension schemes, including Social Security.
Veteran
Honda has become the main voice to overhaul and improve the current VA system. As an appropriator, he worked with his colleagues on both sides to not only call for change, but to provide funds to create a new electronic health record program between the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. He also works to ensure that the government utilizes the knowledge and experience of health information technology experts, such as those in Silicon Valley, to ensure this new platform will eliminate the current claim guarantees. Honda helped earn $ 2.8 million in grants to help homeless homeless and risky families in Silicon Valley.
Women's rights
Honda has a 100% legislative score from Planned Parenthood and from the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and has long been a supporter of pro-choice laws and for women's health. Honda has endorsed the Paycheck Fairness Act and selected Fair Pay Act Lily Ledbetter - the first part of a law to be signed by President Barack Obama in 2009.
During the debate over the new health care bill, Honda voted against the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would prohibit the use of federal funds "to pay for abortion or to cover part of the cost of any health plan covering coverage abortion "except in cases of rape, incest or danger to mother's life. The amendment was dropped by co-authors, Stupak, in return for an executive order promised by President Obama that would address Stupak-Pitts's concerns.
In 2013, Honda elected to re-authorize the Anti-Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which includes the latest protection for Native American women, immigrant women, and provides special support and resources for LGBT, religious and ethnic communities. Re-authorization of VAWA also includes the Reauthorization Act for Trafficking Victim Protection, which is also supported by Honda. Honda introduced the Law on Domestic Violence Support Justice 2013, which will strengthen the judicial program on which VAWA is based. To support the full implementation of the Obama Administration's Executive Order 13595 and the US National Plan of Action (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security, and to secure Congressional oversight, Honda introduced the 2013 Women, Peace and Security Act, throughout the women. fellow Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky, Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Niki Tsongas.
Dissolution of civilian body weapons
In July 2014, Honda introduced a bill to ban body armor levels for anyone not in law enforcement. In September, it was called the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigation. The bill will prohibit anyone except law enforcement and military personnel from getting 3rd level body armor. He was quoted as saying: "We have to ask ourselves, why is this armor available to just anyone, if it's designed to be used only by our soldiers for fighting? ".
Ethical investigation
It has been alleged that Honda and key members of its congress staff violate House regulations by using taxpayer resources to improve the 2014 re-election campaign. In September 2015, the House's Ethics Committee decided to extend the review of this issue after the Office of the Ethics Congress (Oce) released its report on the allegations. The OCE report noted "there is a compelling reason to believe that Honda Representatives incorrectly binds official events into the past or potential campaigns or political support." On August 8, 2016, the House's Ethics Committee has not yet decided whether Honda broke House rules.
Personal life
Honda's wife, Jeanne, is a kindergarten teacher at the Baldwin Elementary School in San Josà © ©. He died in 2004. He has two children: Mark, an aerospace engineer, residing in Torrance, and Michelle, a marketing and communications manager, in San Jose. Michelle is the mother of one daughter and two sons.
In February 2015, Honda's announcement that he was a "proud monk," or grandfather, of his transgender granddaughter Malisa gained regional, national, and international coverage.
History of elections in the House of Representatives
Election of the United States House of Representatives, 2016
See also
- List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders of America in the United States Congress
- Japanese history in San Francisco
References
External links
- Directory of the United States Congressional Biography, Mike Honda
- OpenCongress Sunlight Foundation Profile of Mike Honda
- Center for Responsive Political Profile of Mike Honda's OpenSecrets.org
- GovTrack.us Profile of Mike Honda
- Peace Corps biography from Mike Honda
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