Mike Honda

Michael Makoto "Mike" Honda (born 27 June 1941 in Walnut Grove, California) is an American politician. Since 2001 he represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mike Honda grew up during the Second World War into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. Thereafter he attended until 1959, the San Jose High School. Until 1974, he completed several courses at San Jose State University. In between, he worked in the years 1965 to 1967 for the Peace Corps. From 1971 to 1981 he was a member of the Planning Commission of the City of San José. After that, he was a member of the 1981-1990 school board of this city. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. From 1990 to 1996 he sat in the County Council of Santa Clara County. After that, he was from 1997 to 2000 deputy in the California State Assembly. His main job was working in the teaching profession.

In the congressional elections of 2000, Honda was in the 15th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 2001. After the previous six elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. Since January 3, 2013, upholds the seventeenth electoral district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Honda is a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee and two subcommittees.

Since 2005, Mike Honda is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He is a widower and lives privately in San Jose.