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Washington, DC – After a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio, just across the state line with Pennsylvania, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Chris Deluzio (PA-17) today introduced the Decreasing Emergency Railroad Accident Instances Locally (DERAIL) Act to broaden the definition by which trains get classified as a "high-hazard flammable train" (HHFT).
For the past forty years, our nation has given corporations free rein and allowed for the hollowing out of our middle class. The American dream has slipped away for so many Americans because the people in charge just don't care.
Look at the devastating environmental catastrophe unfolding right now in East Palestine, Ohio. It didn't have to happen.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., about his visit to Taiwan with a bipartisan delegation and if the U.S. approach of "strategic ambiguity" is effective in China-Taiwan relations.
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Washington, DC – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) sent a letter along with five of his colleagues to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for further action in response to the ongoing ibuprofen and acetaminophen shortages.
SAN JOSE, CA – Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) entered into an Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the County of Santa Clara that suspends an ongoing FAA investigation into alleged grant violations at Reid-Hillview and San Martin airports and sets forth a framework for the airports to participate in a demonstration project that will study best practices for transitioning airports nationwide to unleaded aviation gasoline (avgas).
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), member of the newly formed Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, today announced that he is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to Taiwan to bolster ties between Silicon Valley and the Taiwanese semiconductor industry.
Representative Ro Khanna is leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan Saturday to bolster economic ties as the relationship between Washington and Beijing comes under fresh strain.
Washington, D.C. – As the five largest publicly traded oil companies boast to Wall Street about their record $264.3 billion haul in 2022, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) today led their colleagues in reintroducing the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to crack down on profiteering by Big Oil and return the industry's excessive gains to working people.
Across the political spectrum there seems to be a consensus that the decadeslong free flow of trade, money and technology from the U.S. to China must be fundamentally overhauled, but several lawmakers involved in the effort are confronting the difficulty of an overhaul that doesn't sever economic ties between the two countries.