Press Releases
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.
Washington, DC – November 4, 2021 – Congressmen Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) and Ken Buck (R-CO-4) along with Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced the Foreign Agents Registration Modernization Act (FARM) today. The FARM Act would strengthen the outdated Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.
Washington, DC – November 4, 2021 – Today, Representative Ro Khanna, Chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, urged Administrator Regan at the Environmental Protection Agency and Secretary Raimondo at the Department of Commerce to consider the problem of apparel waste as they work to finalize a national recycling strategy.