Honorable Mike Honda
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Honda has represented California’s Seventeenth District since 2012. He previously represented the State’s Fifteenth District from 2001to 2013. He served in the California State Assembly from 1996 to 2000. He sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Commerce, Justice, and Science Committee. The following is from the November 19, 2015, House floor debate on H.R. 4038, the American Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act. I rise today in strong opposition to the American SAFE Act of 2015 (H.R. 4038). This ill-advised, short-sighted, closed-minded bill would immediately block all refugees from Syria and Iraq from resettling in the United States…
