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Rep Ro Khanna on Wednesday was the only member of the House Armed Services Committee to vote against legislation that would authorize an $886 billion military budget for the coming fiscal year, a sum the California Democrat decried as outrageous amid cuts to social spending and attacks on aid programs for vulnerable Americans.
It has taken a long while and a great deal of adversity. But Americans of many political persuasions – Democrat and Republican, progressive and conservative, partisan and independent – are at last rediscovering something we'd come close to forgetting.
While representing Silicon Valley's 17th congressional district, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna has pulled off a unique political balancing act. He's successfully positioned himself as a progressive capitalist, supported by billionaires in Big Tech while serving as a co-chair of Bernie Sanders' last presidential campaign, which pilloried the billionaire class. But Khanna sees bringing disparate groups and ideas together as the key to success in politics and life.
Senate Democrats aim to continue a House investigation into the oil industry's so-called supermajors and what they knew about climate change as localities across the country seek compensation for its effects.
The Democrats on what was then called the House Oversight and Reform Committee launched an investigation in 2021 examining whether the largest oil companies privately knew their products were contributing to climate change and hiding this fact from the public.
COLUMBIA — Benedict College's partnership with Google, an effort designed to increase diversity in the tech industry, is continuing with a second group of students.
The historically Black college in Columbia was one of the first colleges to partner with Google and TalentSprint, an educational technology company, when the mentoring program launched in 2022 with 18 students from Benedict.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrats have watched in dismay as voters in rural and old industrial strongholds say they want more of what the Republican Party is offering, resisting the establishment's approach to win them back and raising questions about their party's strategy.
One progressive — a suited-up, camera-ready U.S. congressman from California — is determined to try a different approach to pique their interest.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Benedict College leaders were joined by Congressman James Clyburn and Congressman Ro Khanna to celebrate the TechWise Program.
Google and TalentSprint are celebrating the successful implementation of the TechWise program. Benedict is among the first schools in the United States to be included in the program.
One thing that Ro Khanna, a U.S. House member who represents parts of Silicon Valley, has learned about trying to organize relations between the Democratic Party and tech billionaires is that it is often easier to leverage the narcissism of founders than to disabuse them of it. "You have to understand the mind-set of people who are entrepreneurs," he told me recently, over lunch on the Hill.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - A Sunnyvale Starbucks says it plans to vote to unionize later this month and today, Silicon Valley congressman Ro Khanna met with some of the employees in a show of support. Workers say their hours are being cut, preventing them from getting benefits, which often leads to a short staff.
There are 9,000 Starbucks stores nationwide, and at least 290 of them have voted to unionize since 2021. A store in Santa Cruz and in San Francisco have already unionized and now here in Sunnyvale, workers say they want to join the fight for a living wage and benefits.
Rep. Ro Khanna understood the gravity of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse quicker than most.
Tech leaders were lighting up the Silicon Valley congressman's phone the night before the shutdown, and his experience working in the Obama administration's Commerce Department told him swift action would be needed.