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Rep. Ro Khanna calls the inability of the U.S. Congress to take action on gun violence "shameful." At a Saturday forum on community and school safety in Milpitas, Khanna said the solutions are available.
"We know what needs to be done," Khanna, D-Fremont said to the nearly 50 residents gathered for Table Talk at the Milpitas Community Center presented by the city of Milpitas and the Milpitas Unified School District.
But his opinions didn't completely reflect the status of gun sales in the state.
RO KHANNA, the Silicon Valley member of Congress who has been pushing the boundaries of progressive policy in the House, is wading into the debate over a federal job guarantee with a new draft bill.
Silicon Valley's representative, Ro Khanna (D-CA), has now formally requested that the House Energy & Commerce Committee invite AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to appear before it and explain how his company's retainer of Trump's personal attorney in 2017 doesn't constitute influence buying.
Over the past two months, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has made a rather dramatic leftward shift on several key issues, creating a new consensus around policies to the left of anything the Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton campaign proposed in 2016.
Among the most buzzed-about policies is a universal job guarantee, which would ensure every American the right to a job no matter what the state of the economy. In April alone, three Democratic senators and rumored 2020 presidential contenders all endorsed the idea.
Starting this week, European regulators have been tasked with enforcing a sweeping new privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. And the U.S. Representative whose district includes the headquarters of Google and Apple says we need something like that, but not as extreme.
"The answer can't be, on a scale of one to 10, Europe's regulations [are] a nine, we're a zero," Congressman Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. "Why can't we get to a four or a five?"
"The greatest challenge of our time," Representative Ro Khanna of Fremont said, "is the concentration of economic opportunity by geography."
Mr. Khanna, a 41-year-old patent lawyer, is a first-term congressman from the 17th District of California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. He's a self-avowed tech junkie who's drawn support from the industry's top players.
Yet he's joked that his district has some of "the biggest egos known to humankind" and he is adamant that Silicon Valley is too exclusive, hardly diverse enough and benefits far too few.
IN THE WAKE of a bruising confirmation fight that highlighted new CIA Director Gina Haspel's role in the U.S. torture program in the years after 9/11, the House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen.
Lawmakers in the House are looking to restrain U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in the Yemen civil war in an annual defense policy bill, so far filing at least nine amendments with that aim.
Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have grown increasingly frustrated with Saudi Arabia in its campaign against the Houthi rebels. The civilian death toll in the conflict has been rising, with most of the casualties blamed on Saudi airstrikes.
We caught up with Rep. Ro Khanna during a recent visit to his home district in the Silicon Valley. Rep. Khanna talks about his support for the Marijuana Justice Act, the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions and his favorite place to grab a cup of chai.
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, is working on a bill aimed at boosting the middle class by tackling wage stagnation. The bill would massively expand the 'Earned Income Tax Credit' program, with refunds of up to $12,000 in some cases. Since 1975, both parties have broadly supporting this work-conditional program that refunds a portion of the beneficiary's federal tax payments. Though in recent years, as wages have stagnated and inflation has raised prices, critics have argued that the value of the refund has diminished beyond its original intent.