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WASHINGTON ― Call it the gold-plated clutch disk.
The Pentagon paid contractor TransDigm $1,443 for a for a three-inch ring called a "non-vehicular clutch disk" which is used in the C-135 transport aircraft, though it cost the company just $32 to produce, giving it 4,436 percent in excess profit, according to a House Oversight and Government Reform memo released Wednesday.
Washington, DC – Tomorrow, Rep. Ro Khanna will chair a hearing titled, "DOD Inspector General Report on Excess Profits by TransDigm Group, Inc." at 10:00am in 2154 Rayburn HOB in the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
If Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Trump can't strike an infrastructure deal, key Democrats say they should push their own partisan bill through the House ahead of the 2020 elections.
Today, Rep. Khanna issued the below statement in response to today's reporting from TIME.
In response to today's oped in the New York Times by Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes, Rep. Khanna issued the below statement:
Yesterday, Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) along with Reps. Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Dan Kildee (MI-5), introduced the PFAs Waste Incineration Ban Act of 2019.
After the White House announced it's deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Middle East to counter threats from Iran, Democratic lawmakers warned that President Donald Trump is "inching" toward war.
Some experts say these fears are overblown, but others are concerned that Trump doesn't understand the risks of a military confrontation with Iran.
Attorney General William Barr made "a huge strategic mistake" summarizing the Mueller report, House Oversight Committee member Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said Thursday, adding, "the country wants to hear from Bob Mueller."
He urged the special counsel to testify.
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Khanna praised Senator Gillibrand's plan to give every voter funding to donate to campaigns.
Since the dawn of the Drug War, federal legislators have stood by, or even applauded, as millions of Americans have racked up convictions for marijuana offenses — with arrests increasing in the latest FBI crime statistics, despite nearly a dozen states having already legalized cannabis.