Press Releases
SAN JOSE, CA – Today, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will provide Santa Clara County with $2,819,898 in funding to support HIV emergency relief efforts for low-income individuals and minority populations.
Washington, DC – Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) spoke with Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin about the trip he is leading this week to Pennsylvania, Iowa, and South Carolina where he is meeting with students at community colleges that are participating in a public-private partnership program established to help prepare them to get good paying tech jobs after graduating.
Washington, DC – Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) released the following statement applauding the Department of Transportation for recommending $500 million in funding for the BART Silicon Valley Phase II Project.
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), the representative from Silicon Valley and Congressional Progressive Caucus Deputy Whip, issued the following statement on Silicon Valley Bank, located in his district:
Washington, D.C. — In case you missed it, Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) published an op-ed in The Boston Globe today on how the United States can keep the peace between Taiwan and China and strengthen our own manufacturing base.
Washington, DC – After a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio, just across the state line with Pennsylvania, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Chris Deluzio (PA-17) today introduced the Decreasing Emergency Railroad Accident Instances Locally (DERAIL) Act to broaden the definition by which trains get classified as a "high-hazard flammable train" (HHFT).
Washington, DC – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) sent a letter along with five of his colleagues to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for further action in response to the ongoing ibuprofen and acetaminophen shortages.
SAN JOSE, CA – Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) entered into an Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the County of Santa Clara that suspends an ongoing FAA investigation into alleged grant violations at Reid-Hillview and San Martin airports and sets forth a framework for the airports to participate in a demonstration project that will study best practices for transitioning airports nationwide to unleaded aviation gasoline (avgas).
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), member of the newly formed Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, today announced that he is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to Taiwan to bolster ties between Silicon Valley and the Taiwanese semiconductor industry.
Washington, D.C. – As the five largest publicly traded oil companies boast to Wall Street about their record $264.3 billion haul in 2022, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) today led their colleagues in reintroducing the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to crack down on profiteering by Big Oil and return the industry's excessive gains to working people.