Honorable Howard P. McKeon
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative McKeon, of the Twenty-Fifth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served on the William S. Hart School District Board from 1979 to 1987, as Mayor of Santa Clara from 1987 to 1988, and on the Santa Clara City Council from 1988 to 1992. He is a member of the following committees: Armed Services; Education and the Workforce, where he chairs the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness; and Veterans’ Affairs. The following is from the May 16, 2002, House floor debate on H.R. 4737, the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion…