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April 22, 2022

Santa Clara, CA — Today, Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17) joined Preston Prince, Santa Clara County Housing Authority Executive Director and Vince Cantore, Vice President of Core Companies, for a tour of two affordable housing sites in Santa Clara County. Rep. Khanna visited Clarendon Street Apartments, an 80-unit affordable housing community in San Jose, CA, and Agrihood Santa Clara, an urban farm housing site currently under construction.

Issues: Economy , Housing

April 18, 2022

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Endorsers: Google, IBM, PQSecure Technologies, QuSecure, Maybell Quantum, Quantinuum, Qrypt


April 7, 2022

Washington, DC – Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) was named by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of the Members of the House chosen as a conferee for the House's America COMPETES Act of 2022 conference committee.


April 7, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) introduced the Security of the Economy, Climate, and other U.S. interests with Recent and Existing Food alternatives (SECURE Food) Act, which would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit an intelligence report on the effects of increased production and consumption of alternative proteins on American national security.


March 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) announced that $1.5 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will be directed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to make critical advancements on the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Project (Shoreline Project) Phase III.


March 22, 2022

Washington, D.C. — Today, Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led a bicameral group of colleagues in introducing the Future of Water Act to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit futures trading of water or water rights and protect our country's water. Water is a basic human right that must be managed and protected as a public trust resource.


March 10, 2022

Washington, D.C. — With gas prices skyrocketing in recent days against a backdrop of continued Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are introducing the bicameral Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to curb profiteering by oil companies and provide Americans relief at the gas pump.


March 9, 2022

Washington, D.C. — Today, Representative Khanna voted to fund $11,905,000 in Community Project Funding that he previously secured for CA-17. This funding, included in the appropriations government funding package, will respond directly to some of the most pressing needs in Santa Clara and Alameda counties.


March 8, 2022
WASHINGTON — Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and  Jody Hice (R-Ga.) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced legislation, the Chance to Compete Act (H.R. 6967). This bipartisan, bicameral bill improves the federal hiring process by giving agencies the ability to share applicant assessments, allow subject matter experts to serve as interviewers, and move assessments toward focusing on the candidate’s ability to perform the actual job rather than where or if they received their college degree.
Issues: Economy , Education