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South Bay lawmakers, Asian American community leaders and Bay Area residents led a town hall to discuss the impact of the recent shootings in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park (Los Angeles County) on the community's mental health.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a representative of the only Asian American majority district in the continental U.S., kicked off the packed town hall Saturday morning at San Jose City College by expressing his concerns around the spate of hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the Bay Area and around the nation.
Washington : Four prominent Indian-American lawmakers -- Pramila Jayapal, Ami Bera, Raja Krishnamoorthi and Ro Khanna -- have been appointed members of three key House panels, reflecting the growing influence of the community in US politics.
As layoffs in the tech sector in Silicon Valley continue to disproportionately hit Indian professionals, Ro Khanna, the elected Congressman for the area in California, has said the United States Congress must do all it can to help those affected.
The US will not default on its debt but the Biden administration might be forced to take unilateral action to head off a crisis, Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, offering several possible executive maneuvers.
"The question is whether it's going to come to unilateral action by the executive branch," Khanna said during a meeting with Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Monday.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California said Tuesday that House Republicans are threatening to "hijack the entire U.S. economy" and "subject it to collapse" in pursuit of cuts to Social Security and other right-wing policy goals, a warning that came as the Treasury Department prepared to take emergency measures to prevent the U.S. from breaching the debt ceiling.
A friendship between Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna and Assemblywoman Selena Torres turned into a resolution introduced in Congress on Tuesday to urge President Joe Biden to acknowledge the United States' role in El Salvador's 12-year civil war that killed an estimated 75,000 people.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said ahead of President Biden's first visit to the southern border that Congress must act on legislation to strengthen border enforcement and bolster the country's asylum processing infrastructure.
NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who argues that "a new economic patriotism" can make the U.S. a manufacturing powerhouse once again.
ANDREW LIMBONG, HOST:
Progressives are taking aim at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over the Southwest airlines holiday travel fiasco that continues to cause mass delays and cancellations across the country, urging further scrutiny of the department's practices.
The relationship between India and the United States can define the 21st century, Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna said on Monday, as a leading American daily in a long-form article articulated that the post-Ukrainian war world would see India's emergence.
"The US-India relationship can define the 21st century," Khanna said in a tweet, referring to The New York Times article.