CON 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. The following is from the September 17, 2014, House floor debate on an amendment to H.J. Res. 124, making continuing appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015, introduced by Representative Buck McKeon (CA-R). The amendment would authorize the secretary of defense, in coordination with the secretary of state, to train and equip appropriately vetted elements of the Syrian opposition and other appropriately vetted Syrian groups. I…
