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Lawmakers want federal websites to serve citizens better and have introduced new legislation that would set minimum standards and look to lower costs through digitization.

Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, Thursday announced the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, or 21st Century IDEA, which would require agencies to modernize their websites, improve customer experience online and encourage citizens to use digital portals rather than relying on paper and in-person interactions.

Jawan Thompson still sounds incredulous at his luck: He has a job, and a good job.

Dozens of Silicon Valley executives are scheduled to descend on the White House for a summit meeting Thursday to discuss how artificial intelligence can be used to strengthen the economy.

"I think the big question is ‘what are the new jobs going to look like?'" said Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California's tech-heavy 17th district.

Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat who represents Silicon Valley, wants AT&T's CEO, Randall Stephenson, to appear before Congress and explain why his company retained the services of Essential Consultants–the law firm of Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen–in early 2017 as Trump was preparing to take office.

"I plan to speak to my colleagues on the Energy & Commerce committee to see how we can get the CEO to explain himself to the American people," Khanna tells Fast Company Wednesday evening.

Freshman lawmakers have revived the push for congressional term limits, hoping to spark action on a long-stalled idea on Capitol Hill.

A bipartisan group of young members, led by rising GOP star and freshman Rep. Mike Gallagher (Wis.), took the cause directly to the president during a White House meeting last week, where they received President Trump's full-throated endorsement.

What countries in Eastern Europe might have once assumed were domestic debates over World War II history are spilling over into major international disputes and causing problems for their relations with the United States.

Last month, more than 50 members of Congress sent a letter to the State Department that expressed concerns about "state-sponsored Holocaust distortion and denial." The lawmakers note that both Poland and Ukraine recently passed laws relating to World War II history and claim these are connected to rising incidents of anti-Semitism.

BILL OF RIGHTS UPDATE — A draft of Rep. Ro Khanna's internet bill of rights — a set of consumer data privacy regulations — has been circulated among senior Silicon Valley executives and Washington advocacy groups. The California Democrat is now in the process of soliciting feedback and, he hopes, garnering support from the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple, as well as the Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Knowledge and Electronic Frontier Foundation. He's also bouncing ideas off Obama administration tech officials like Todd Park, Nicole Wong and Alexander Macgillivray.