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Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna has introduced a stand-alone bill in the US House of Representatives that gives India specific waivers from the punitive CAATSA sanctions.
CAATSA is a tough US law that authorises the administration to impose sanctions on countries that purchase major defence hardware from Russia in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections.
The congressman from Silicon Valley is pressure-testing a message that he thinks could save the Democratic party in the industrial Midwest.
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Dressed in gray suit slacks, black work boots and a blue hard hat, the congressman from Silicon Valley one recent morning in a steel factory here stood and looked at a big, roaring furnace so hot it was glowing orange.
Insurgent presidential campaigns don't start in Washington. They begin at barbeques with the New Hampshire Young Democrats, in meetings with frustrated local officials in Indiana factory towns and at UW-Whitewater's Rock County campus in Janesville.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was feeling good.
The progressive congressman saw President Biden's signing of the CHIPS and Science Act Tuesday as just one of several legislative victories in the Democrats' arsenal heading into the midterm elections.
Some of those accomplishments, he believes, can help bring about a new vision for the party, where innovation and patriotism merge to remake a stronger, more economically inclusive America.
He's a frequent guest on networks like CNN and MSNBC, but he also pops up on the conservative-leaning network.
The California Democrat, whose district includes some of Silicon Valley, kept a smile on his face as he tangled with Maria Bartiromo on gas prices, inflation and climate change in July.
The recent India-specific CAATSA sanctions waiver by the U.S. House of Representatives is the most consequential vote since the civilian nuclear deal, an influential Indian-American Democratic Congressman has said, asserting that U.S. President Joe Biden will expedite the waiver because he has the "political mileage" and the backing of 300 members of the Congress.
WHY THE LEFT IS QUIET — Normally, just as Senate Dems begin to untie the final knots presented by the parliamentarian and any caucus holdouts, progressives in the House would start making noises about why they can't support the bill. But so far, those voices have been muted. On Wednesday, we talked to Rep. RO KHANNA (D-Calif.) about why Democrats in the House, and especially progressives, this time seem ready to swallow whatever is sent over.
CUPERTINO, Calif. - U.S. Representative Ro Khanna met with leaders from the African American community in Silicon Valley today. He says he was disturbed by a recent report highlighting disparities affecting Black people throughout the South Bay.
Democratic leaders are racing to finalize a revised proposal to tackle climate change and jump-start the nation's transition to clean energy, part of a larger sprint to strike a deal with Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) on their stalled spending bill this month.