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Washington, DC – January 13, 2022 – Today, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) cheered President Biden's announcement that he will be making high-quality masks free and easily accessible for every American. The news follows the introduction of Rep.
Washington, DC – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, applauded the EPA's response to Santa Clara County's Petition for Rulemaking to eliminate lead pollution from aircraft.
Washington, DC – January 13, 2022 – As the world enters the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, with Omicron surging and cases skyrocketing, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), with more than 50 of their Democratic colleagues in the Senate and House, reintroduced lifesaving legislation to manufacture and distribute highly-protective N95 masks to every person in America.
Washington, DC – Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and more than 40 members of the House and Senate sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Sunday, calling on his administration to build on its current efforts to expand access to COVID-19 testing by substantially increasing the supply of rapid tests and removing financial and logistical barriers to access for the duration of the pandemic.
Washington, DC – January 6, 2021 – Today, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Happy holidays!
As 2021 comes to a close, I would like to highlight some of the work I have been doing in Washington, D.C. and in the South Bay over the past year to improve the lives of people in our district and across the country.
Washington, DC – December 13, 2021 – Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Mike Quigley (IL-05), member of the House Committee on Appropriations, introduced the End Polluter Welfare for Enhanced Oil Recovery Act to repeal a tax giveaway that enables the fossil fuel industry to profit off capturing carbon emissions and using them to increase oil production.
California lawmaker Ro Khanna introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday that would prevent investors from securing carbon capture and sequestration tax credits if the carbon is used to boost oil production.
The bill has little chance of being adopted into law, but reflects deep political divisions in Congress over whether and how carbon capture can be used as a tool in the fight against climate change.
Washington, DC – December 7, 2021 – Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), and Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) issued the below statement this evening after voting against the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
The recent breaching of the United States' embassy in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa by rebel forces, and the detaining of Yemeni employees of the embassy, is the latest escalation in a war that has gone on for far too long. It is a war that the United States has supported and remains deeply involved in. It's time for that complicity to end.