 For his significant legislative work on and support for all education initiatives, but also for legislation to strengthen national security through expansion and improvement of foreign language study, and to increase foreign language capacity in the U.S. intelligence community and throughout the federal government by expanding education in critical need foreign languages, Holt received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in 2005.On May 28, 2010, Holt voted in support of the Science and Technology Funding Bill (H.R.5116), a bill passed in the House that provided funding for science and technology research and development purposes.