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Washington, DC – Today Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) joined with Senators Whitehouse (D-RI), Markey (D-MA) and Klobuchar (D-MN) and Representatives Lee (D-PA) and Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to lead 50 Members of Congress in sending a bicameral letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expressing concern over recent consolidation in the oil-and-gas industry.
Washington, DC -- Today Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Debbie Dingell (MI-06) unveiled their new Made in the USA bill as part of a factory tour in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The bill would invigorate U.S. manufacturing, create good-paying jobs, and protect workers by incentivizing and rewarding consumers for buying American-made goods.
Proposed Deal Would Make Capital One the Nation’s 6th Largest Bank, Largest Credit Card Issuer
“This merger is bad for consumers…. In addition to harming consumers and small businesses, bank consolidation poses increased systemic risk in the financial system.”
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 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will distribute $39,486,518 to nonprofits and local governments in Santa Clara County to help end homelessness.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), the Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, Anna Eshoo (CA-16), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S.
The artificial intelligence craze has swept through Washington this past year, with lawmakers increasingly paying attention to the ways the tool can be harnessed — or cause harm.
But according to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents parts of Silicon Valley, a critical voice is getting short shrift in those talks: academics who have spent their lives studying AI.
Many told him that “academic expertise was being ignored in Washington,” he said during an interview this week.
A bipartisan group of more than two dozen House lawmakers plans to send a letter to President Biden on Friday arguing that he must seek authorization from Congress before launching additional strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
While the signatories comprise a small portion of the House of Representatives, their letter marks some of the strongest opposition to date to Biden’s handling of the widening hostilities in the Middle East. It follows a letter from four senators of both parties earlier this week questioning the strategic and legal rationale for the strikes.
Antisemitic incidents have exploded on college campuses (and elsewhere) since Oct. 7. For the first time since the war in Gaza began, a bipartisan group of congressmen, with a stalwart progressive leading the charge, has come up with a constructive response. And boy, do we need one.
Today, I’m talking with Representative Ro Khanna. He’s a Democrat from California, and he’s been in Congress for about eight years now, representing California’s 17th District. It’s arguably the highest-tech district in the entire country.
You’ll hear him say a couple times that there’s $10 trillion of tech market value in his district, and that’s not an exaggeration: Apple, Intel, and Nvidia are all headquartered there. He’s also got a big chunk of Google’s offices. So, you know, no big deal.
As members of Congress return to Capitol Hill next week, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna will continue his fight for a lasting cease-fire in Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed at least 22,600 Palestinians.
"We need this war to stop. It is a humanitarian catastrophe," the California Democrat told Common Dreams in an interview Friday, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his fourth trip to the Middle East in three months.