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May 23, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced that the California Department of Housing and Community Development will distribute $605,985 in federal funding to Santa Clara County from the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program.

Issues: Economy , Housing

May 5, 2023
Ro's Op-Eds

America is afraid, and so are we.

In the United States, some of our most vulnerable minority groups are being targeted by politicians and public figures who crave power. This power struggle has created an environment where harmful narratives and hateful rhetoric are becoming more common.

As two Asian American lawmakers, we cannot stand by and watch who we are as people be attacked. The people we were elected to represent are seeing these attacks play out in real time. Some are robbed. Some are beaten in the streets. Others are shot and killed at work.

Issues: Health Care and the Social Safety Net , Prioritizing Public Safety

May 3, 2023

Senate Democrats aim to continue a House investigation into the oil industry's so-called supermajors and what they knew about climate change as localities across the country seek compensation for its effects.

The Democrats on what was then called the House Oversight and Reform Committee launched an investigation in 2021 examining whether the largest oil companies privately knew their products were contributing to climate change and hiding this fact from the public.


April 27, 2023

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) teamed up with Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Texas' U.S. Senator John Cornyn, Alabama's U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville and Representative Earl "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-01) to introduce the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act.


April 27, 2023

COLUMBIA — Benedict College's partnership with Google, an effort designed to increase diversity in the tech industry, is continuing with a second group of students.

The historically Black college in Columbia was one of the first colleges to partner with Google and TalentSprint, an educational technology company, when the mentoring program launched in 2022 with 18 students from Benedict.

Issues: Economy , Education

April 24, 2023

Washington, D.C. — Starting now, at 2:30 pm PT, Rep. Khanna (CA-17) is delivering remarks at Stanford's Hoover Institution on competition with China, U.S. foreign policy toward Taiwan, and the economic dynamics of geopolitics, including revitalizing American manufacturing and building supply chain resiliency.

A discussion with Michael McFaul, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Amy Zegart, Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution will follow the congressman's remarks.


April 22, 2023

DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrats have watched in dismay as voters in rural and old industrial strongholds say they want more of what the Republican Party is offering, resisting the establishment's approach to win them back and raising questions about their party's strategy.

One progressive — a suited-up, camera-ready U.S. congressman from California — is determined to try a different approach to pique their interest.

Issues: Economy

April 20, 2023

Washington (April 20, 2023) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security and chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, today joined Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Summer Lee (PA-12), and Maxwell Frost (FL-10) in introducing the Green New Deal for Health, legislation that will enable the U.S.


April 19, 2023

SAN JOSE, CA – Today, U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide Santa Clara County with $11,109,104 to support community-wide efforts to end homelessness. The FY22 consolidated appropriations package that Reps. Lofgren, Eshoo, Khanna, and Panetta voted in favor of appropriated the HUD funding being delivered around the country.


April 17, 2023

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 Health and Human Services (HHS) will provide Santa Clara County with $2,819,898 in funding to support HIV emergency relief efforts for low-income individuals and minority populations.