# Quote of the day: Congressman Mike Honda

DevFeed: [Quote of the day: Congressman Mike Honda](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/quote-of-the-day-congressman-mike-honda-35314.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/ideas/quote-of-the-day-congressman-mike-honda/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2009-03-21T17:49:12Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government.md>), [ideas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ideas.md>), [public](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/public.md>), [quote](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quote.md>), [society](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/society.md>)

## AI overview

A quote from Congressman Mike Honda argues that government officials should justify withholding public data, rather than taxpayers having to request access through Freedom of Information Act processes.

## Source excerpt

Congressman Mike Honda, D-San Jose, writing about opening government databases: Instead of databases becoming available as a result of Freedom Of Information Act requests, government officials should be required to justify why any public data should not be freely available to the taxpayers who paid for its creation. Wow, what an exciting time to be in North America. From the O'Reilly Radar.