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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.
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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.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on Tuesday introduced a bill aimed at reforming the standard for police use of force in the final days of the congressional session.
The PEACE Act of 2022, an acronym for Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone, was introduced in both chambers of Congress by California lawmakers U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Alex Padilla.
In 2017, Rep. Ro Khanna entered Congress, and in his first year began speaking out about a price-gouging defense contractor named TransDigm that ultimately returned $16 million in overcharges to the Pentagon.
A longtime creature of the tech world, it's perhaps not surprising that Rep. Ro Khanna makes an appearance in the latest Silicon Valley scandal.
Last week, a House investigation into Big Oil profiteering and greenwashing released its latest report — the result of more than a year of research, subpoenas and hearings.
Those who followed Friday's release of the "Twitter Files" — a series of emails concerning Twitter's decision to suppress a New York Post story on Hunter Biden just prior to the 2020 presidential election — were treated to a surprise guest appearance from Bay Area Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat who represents Silicon Valley.