Press Releases
Washington, DC – December 13, 2021 – Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Mike Quigley (IL-05), member of the House Committee on Appropriations, introduced the End Polluter Welfare for Enhanced Oil Recovery Act to repeal a tax giveaway that enables the fossil fuel industry to profit off capturing carbon emissions and using them to increase oil production.
Washington, DC – December 7, 2021 – Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), and Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) issued the below statement this evening after voting against the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
Washington, DC – Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Darren Soto (FL-9) led a group of House Democrats in sending a letter to President Biden urging him to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and ban crude oil exports to bring down high gasoline and fuel prices.
Washington, DC – November 22, 2021 – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) announced the Protecting America's Meatpacking Workers Act which would provide stronger workplace protections for meat and poultry processing workers.
Washington, DC – November 19, 2021 – Today, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Deputy Whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, cheered the House passage of the Build Back Better Act, which includes free universal pre-school, paid family and medical leave, affordable childcare, clean energy investments and more.
Washington, D.C. – November 18 – Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Peter Meijer, R-Mi., introduced bipartisan legislation today to protect Americans against warrantless searches of the data generated and stored in their cars and trucks.
Washington, DC – November 8, 2021 – Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today led 77 members of Congress on a letter to Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona asking him to update guidance regarding Campus Climate surveys, which are used to assess campus culture on a variety of issues including sexual violence. This letter serves as a follow-up to the U.S.
Washington, DC – November 6, 2021 – Today, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Deputy Whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, issued the following statement on the House passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Washington, DC – November 5, 2021 – Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and introduced the U.S.-Taiwan Public Health Protection Act to establish a U.S.-Taiwan Infectious Disease Monitoring Center within the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) to partner with Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Representative Michael Waltz (R-Florida) are co-sponsors of the bill.