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Advocates for tougher campaign finance regulations say comments from Mick Mulvaney seeming to describe a pay-to-play style of politics on Capitol Hill will boost their long-term effort to overhaul the rules and could benefit like-minded candidates in the midterm elections.

Four years ago today (April 25), the Michigan town of Flint switched the source of its water, resulting in dangerous levels of lead and a public health catastrophewhose affects continue. Now, on the anniversary of the start of the crisis, two members of Congress have introduced legislation to prevent a similar situation from happening again.

More than 50 U.S. Congress members condemned Ukrainian legislation that they said "glorifies Nazi collaborators" and therefore goes further than Poland's laws on rhetoric about the Holocaust.

The condemnation came in an open bipartisan letter to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan that was initiated by Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California and David Cicilline of Rhode Island.

California Rep. Ro Khanna has been tapped by Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to write legislation defining Internet users' rights to their data.

In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Khanna said he was frustrated after Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hearings on Capitol Hill showed many members did not understand basic concepts about the internet.

"There are some who didn't know what cookies were and some who didn't know how Facebook made its money," he said. "I think this is a time for leadership."

A South Bay congressman wants a bill of rights for internet users similar to the one provided to airline passengers.

Days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill about the Cambridge Analytica data breach, House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi asked U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing most of Silicon Valley, to draft a new bill to outline just what users rights should be.

On Sunday, he held a town hall at Independence High School in San Jose, saying he'll be engaging with Silicon Valley tech giants Google, Facebook and Apple for input.

Since arriving on Capitol Hill last year, Rep. Ro Khanna has advocated for Americans' rights to their own private data on the web. Now, fellow Bay Area Rep. Nancy Pelosi has tapped him to outline just what those rights are.

Pelosi, the longtime Democratic leader who represents San Francisco, asked Khanna last week to draft an "Internet Bill of Rights," days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress over the Cambridge Analytica data leak. The news was first reported by Newsweek on Thursday.

It makes sense the congressional district that essentially created the Internet should lead the legislative effort to create a more equatable platform and protect the privacy of its users. That's why House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has tasked Rep. Ro Khanna to lead the effort.

The assignment is a significant appointment for the first-term Khanna, who represents Fremont and Silicon Valley in Congress.

U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna, of California's 17th Congressional District will meet with WVU Tech and WVU representatives on Beckley's campus Monday to discuss STEM education and industry in the state.

Tech officials reported Khanna will be visiting alongside representatives from high-tech manufacturing, healthcare, information technology and data analysis companies to discuss how the WVU system is encouraging the growth of STEM fields in the state.