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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has completed his investigation of what happened regarding Russia's interference in the 2016 election. It is time now to pivot to addressing what needs to be done to prevent future meddling from Russia or any other foreign government.

Obviously, we still have not seen all the details of what Mueller and his team have learned regarding Russia's violation of our sovereignty in 2016. But the clock is ticking; we cannot wait for the publication of that report to begin taking necessary actions to protect the vote of the American people in 2020.

On the fourth anniversary of the War in Yemen, this brutal and ongoing onslaught has taken the lives of more than 60,000 Yemenis and left half the population—14 million people—on the verge of famine. What began as a civil war in Yemen escalated into what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen became an international killing field, with Saudi Arabia leading a vicious bombing campaign, which the Obama and then Trump administrations helped unleash.

Expensive measures such as "Medicare for All" and the Green New Deal are among the issues facing the House Democrats who will weigh the fiscal aspects of the party's most ambitious ideas now that they control the majority.

But the rise of Modern Monetary Theory within the party has some lawmakers wondering whether it even matters whether those programs increase the deficit, as long as the country isn't at risk of significant inflation.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a humorous Twitter exchange on Thursday over Jared Kushner's use of WhatsApp for official White House duties, which may have violated federal records laws.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a CNN segment about this with the caption, "But his WhatsApp." The tweet alluded to an online joke about Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, "But her emails," which was meant to be a jab at critics who frequently brought up the issue during the 2016 election.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said Wednesday that while his constituents want a transparent investigation into President Donald Trump, the call for impeachment is premature.

"I haven't ruled it out. I said the bar is very high, we shouldn't prejudge anything and we should wait for the evidence before we make any determination," Khanna told "America's Newsroom."

Earlier this month, it was reported that the House Oversight Committee had obtained documents which had been turned over to the committee from an unnamed source within the executive residence. These documents apparently provide a timeline and at least a partial explanation for how Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner obtained their security clearances.

The Congressional Management Foundation March 20 announced that U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a second-term Indian American Democrat representing the 17th Congressional District in California, is a finalist for the Democracy Awards.

The awards recognize non-legislative achievement in operations and constituent service by congressional offices and members of Congress, according to the foundation.

All of a sudden, it's popular to be progressive.

The unexpectedly competitive Democratic primary of 2016, pitting Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders, quickly became a battle of "progressives" versus "progressives who get things done." And in the Democrats' search for identity following Clinton's soul-crushing general election loss to Donald Trump, Democratic candidates at all levels throughout the 2018 election cycle wore the progressive badge, even if their definition of "progressive" was sometimes rather ambiguous.