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Ro Khanna

January 08, 2023

Rohit Khanna (/ˈkʌnə/; born September 13, 1976) is an American politician, lawyer, and academic serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incumbent Democratic Representative Mike Honda in the general election on November 8, 2016, after first running for the same seat in 2014. Khanna also served as the deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from August 8, 2009, to August 2011.

Ro Khanna
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 17th district
Assumed office
January 3, 2017
Preceded byMike Honda
Personal details
Born
Rohit Khanna

(1976-09-13) September 13, 1976 (age 46)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Ritu Ahuja
​
(m. 2015)​
Children2
RelativesAmarnath Vidyalankar (grandfather)
EducationUniversity of Chicago (BA)
Yale University (JD)
WebsiteHouse website

Khanna identifies as a progressive capitalist, and has called for a "new economic patriotism" as a governing philosophy.[1][2][3][4] He states that he only accepts campaign donations from individuals and is one of only six members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and ten members of Congress, who state that they do not take campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) or corporations.[5][6][7][8]

Early life and education

Rohit Khanna was born on September 13, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into an Indian Punjabi Hindu family.[9] His parents immigrated to the U.S. from Punjab, India. His father is a chemical engineer who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and then the University of Michigan; his mother is a former schoolteacher.[10][11][12] Khanna's maternal grandfather Amarnath Vidyalankar was from Bhera City, Shahpur District, Punjab Province, British India (now Bhera, Sargodha District, West Punjab, Pakistan) and was a part of the Indian independence movement, working with Lala Lajpat Rai, and spent years in jail in the pursuit of human rights and freedom.[13][14][15] In a Boston Globe op-ed, Khanna and Representative John Lewis examined how Gandhi's movement was intertwined with the civil rights movement.[16] Khanna graduated from Council Rock High School North, a public school in Newtown, Bucks County in 1994.[17] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with honors from the University of Chicago in 1998, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa,[10][18][19] and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School of Yale University in 2001. After graduation, Khanna clerked for federal appeals judge Morris Sheppard Arnold in Little Rock, Arkansas. In private practice, he specialized in intellectual property law.[18]

Early work in politics, law, and teaching

As a student at the University of Chicago, Khanna worked for William D. Burns walking precincts during Barack Obama's first campaign for the Illinois Senate in 1996.[20][21][22] Khanna interned for Jack Quinn when Quinn served as the chief of staff for Vice President Al Gore.[23] As a sophomore, he interned at former president Jimmy Carter's Carter Center.

Khanna worked at O'Melveny & Myers as an attorney representing technology companies on intellectual property and trade secret issues from 2004 to 2009.[24]

In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Khanna deputy assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce.[18] In that role,[25] Khanna led international trade missions[26] and worked to increase United States exports.[27] He was later appointed to the White House Business Council.[25]

Khanna left the Department of Commerce in August 2011[28] to join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm in Silicon Valley.[29] His pro bono legal activity includes work with the Mississippi Center for Justice on several contractor fraud cases on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims and coauthoring an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Mt. Holly case to allow race discrimination suits under the Fair Housing Act of 1968.[30][31] As part of a pro bono legal team, Khanna filed an amicus brief on behalf of 13 of the country's leading social scientists in the Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas (2016). That brief included research on how a diverse educational environment benefits students and cited studies showing that race-conscious admissions policies (known as affirmative action) used by institutions like the University of Texas result in a more diverse student body.[32][33][34]

Khanna was a visiting lecturer of economics at Stanford University from 2012 to 2016, taught law at the Santa Clara University School of Law,[10] and taught American jurisprudence at San Francisco State University.[35] In 2012 he published a book on American competitiveness in business, Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America's Future.[25][36] Governor Jerry Brown appointed Khanna to the California Workforce Investment Board in 2012.[37] Khanna served on the board of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte from 2006 until 2013 while on leave from the Obama Administration.[38]

In 2014, Khanna left Wilson Sonsini for his first, unsuccessful campaign for California's 17th congressional district seat.[39] He lost a close election to the incumbent, Mike Honda, but garnered substantial support from the Silicon Valley tech industry.[40] He then took a job as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Smart Utility Systems.

In 2016, he challenged Honda again and won, with significant support from venture capital firms and tech companies.[41] He was reelected in 2018, 2020 and 2022.

U.S. House of Representatives

Climate change

As chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Khanna presided over the "Big Oil hearing", bringing the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and British Petroleum to appear before Congress under oath to investigate their spreading of disinformation about climate change. The hearing took place on October 28, 2021. As late as 2000, Exxon advertised in The New York Times that "scientists have been unable to confirm" that burning fossil fuels causes climate change. The Big Oil hearings were the first time oil executives were compelled to answer questions under oath about whether their corporations misled the public about the effects burning oil, gas and coal have on raising the earth's temperature and extreme weather patterns like intensifying storms, deadlier wildfires, and worsening droughts.[42] During the hearing, Khanna called on the executives to "Spare us the spin today. We have no interest in it... Spin doesn't work under oath."[43] In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Khanna described the oil industry's role in obfuscating climate science: "We will have scores of evidence that these big oil companies misrepresented to the American public the threat of climate change. They cast doubt and uncertainty, even though they had scientists in their own company telling them that climate change and climate crisis was going to be catastrophic. And that they continue to engage in a pattern of deception."[44] Khanna led the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's two-year investigation, which uncovered documents showing how Big Oil continues to mislead the public about its commitment to climate goals.[45]

Khanna played a key role in year long negotiations with Senator Joe Manchin to secure the $369 billion climate investment in the Inflation Reduction Act and bring House progressives and environmental groups on board.[46][47][48]

Khanna criticized oil executives for increasing their oil production in October 28, 2021;[49] conversely, in March 2022, he called for an increase in production after gas prices increased."[50] In a Wall Street Journal piece, Khanna laid out a comprehensive strategy to increase production and supply in the short term to dramatically lower prices for the working class and to have a "moonshot" in renewable energy for the long run to diversify energy sources and stabilize prices.[51] In a New York Times piece, Khanna called on Biden to do "way more" to lower gas prices by having the Strategic Petroleum Reserve buy and sell oil cheaply to stabilize prices.[52]

Khanna called climate activist Greta Thunberg to testify in a hearing on eliminating fossil fuel subsidies[53] and worked with executive director of Greenpeace Annie Leonard to lead the campaign to stop new fossil fuel permitting in California.[54][55]

As chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Khanna has been working with President Joe Biden to refashion his climate agenda.[56]

In 2018, Khanna signed on to then Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Green New Deal" proposal, which seeks to form a climate change plan with a goal of a 100% renewable energy economy.[57][58][59]

In March 2019, Khanna was one of 14 members of the House to cosponsor the PFAS Detection Act, legislation intended to provide $45 million to the U.S. Geological Survey for the purpose of developing advanced technologies that can detect PFAS and afterward conduct nationwide sampling for PFAS in the environment.[60]

In a December 2019, New York Times op-ed, Khanna and former secretary of state John Kerry laid out a plan for how America should win the green energy race, analogizing it to the space race.[61] Khanna and Kerry called for expanding the electric vehicle tax credit to make it fully refundable at the time of purchase. This would mean that a person would receive money back immediately when buying an electric vehicle rather than waiting a year for a tax refund. They also called for an exponential increase in the Advanced Research Projects Agency's budget and for doubling the budgets for the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Science, which they say would support renewable energy research to foster the sort of innovation necessary to meet the scale and urgency of the climate challenge. Kerry and Khanna also called for the creation of an infrastructure bank to finance a high-speed rail system to relieve congestion, reduce pollution, increase energy efficiency, and provide alternatives to regional air travel. Finally, Khanna and Kerry called for the US to match China's annual investment in public-private partnerships, noting that China spent $126 billion on renewable energy investments in 2016, while the US spent just over $40 billion.[62]

Khanna has said that creating a Select Committee specifically dedicated to a Green New Deal would be a "very commonsense idea", based on the recent example of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (2007–2011), which proved effective in developing a 2009 bill for cap-and-trade legislation.[63][64]

Internet Bill of Rights

 
Khanna at a Net Neutrality demonstration in Washington, D.C.

In April 2018, Nancy Pelosi asked Khanna to draft the Internet Bill of Rights in wake of Cambridge Analytica's breach and Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress.[65][66] In October 2018, Khanna released a set of principles for an Internet Bill of Rights, including the right of US citizens to have full knowledge of and control over their personal online data, the right to be notified and consent when an entity seeks to collect or sell one's personal data, and the guarantee of net neutrality.[67]

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has endorsed Khanna's principles for the Internet Bill of Rights, saying, "This bill of rights provides a set of principles that are about giving users more control of their online lives while creating a healthier internet economy.”[68]

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton praised the efforts to establish an Internet Bill of Rights in her keynote speech at Mansfield College, Oxford, saying, "it is past time to demand that all nations and corporations respect the right of individuals to control their own data... There is important work now being done by technologists like Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Ro Khanna, the U.S. Congressman representing Silicon Valley. They are trying to develop guidelines for how this could work."[69]

Technology and manufacturing jobs

Khanna, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Todd Young and Representative Mike Gallagher coauthored the Endless Frontier Act, a massive increase in science funding that creates technology hubs across the nation.[70]

The White House invited Khanna to be on stage with President Biden when he signed the Chips and Science bill. This law is based on Khanna’s Endless Frontiers bill and is one of the largest investments in science and in chip manufacturing in American history.[71]

Khanna's Valor Act passed both the House and the Senate and was signed by President Donald Trump on November 21, 2017. The legislation makes it easier for companies to offer veterans apprenticeships.[72][73]

Trump signed Khanna's second bill, the IDEA Act, into law on December 20, 2018. It requires all federal agencies to modernize their websites to the standard of the private sector.[74]

In a New York Times op-ed, Khanna laid out his vision for bringing technology jobs to rural and small-town America. He called for additional funds to existing community colleges and land grant universities to create technology institutes,[75] endorsed an $80 billion investment in high-speed fiber internet throughout the country, and called for federal incentives for government hiring of rural-based software development companies.[76] Khanna also led a delegation of Silicon Valley executives to Jefferson, Iowa, where they partnered with local community colleges and Pillar Technology to create software designer jobs paying $65,000 a year.[77][78][79][80]

Khanna has argued that Silicon Valley should share its economic success with the rest of the U.S.[81][2] He has also been a longtime supporter of bringing advanced manufacturing jobs across America, the topic of his book, Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing Is Still Key To America's Future.[82]

In March 2017, Khanna traveled to Paintsville, Kentucky, also known as "Silicon Holler", with a bipartisan delegation from Congress, to lend support to TechHire Eastern Kentucky, a program that trains Kentuckians in fields like computer technology and coding. He expressed support for a broad technology apprenticeship program that could help areas of the United States like Appalachia by giving blue-collar workers the skills they need to launch careers in the technology sector.[83][84][85] The press has called Khanna the "Ambassador of Silicon Valley."[86][84]

In May 2017, Khanna stood up for the Appalachian Regional Commission and Manufacturing Externship Partnership, a Reagan-era policy, when Trump's proposed 2018 budget zeroed out its funding. Khanna called for quadrupling the program's budget.[87]

Khanna passed his first legislative initiative as the lead Democrat with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to enable veterans to use GI funding for tech training programs.[88]

Khanna called on Silicon Valley executives and technology companies to do more nationwide to create tech jobs and diversify their recruiting efforts by making sure to recruit the next generation of tech workers from not just Ivy League institutions but also state schools and historically black colleges and universities. In a Washington Post op-ed, Khanna wrote, "Tech companies must offer an aspirational vision of how all Americans, regardless of geography, can benefit from a tech-driven economy. This means making investments not just in California, Massachusetts, and New York, but also in start-ups and entrepreneurs in cities and rural communities across the nation."[89]

In February 2018, Khanna and Representative Tim Ryan led a tour of venture capitalists encouraging them to invest in middle America.[90][91]

Khanna has been called an "unconventional ambassador" for the Democratic Party in bringing technology and innovation across America.[92]

Economics

Khanna has called on his colleagues to adopt a more progressive economic platform.[93][94] He is an original co-sponsor of Senator Bernie Sanders's College For All Act, legislation aiming to make public colleges tuition-free.[95] He also has proposed $1 trillion expansion of the earned income tax credit (EITC),[96][97] financed by a financial transaction tax, to help working families across America.[98]

In the Budget Committee, Khanna pointed out that Trump was for a single-payer healthcare system in 2000.[99] Khanna now supports a House bill to provide "Medicare for All".[100]

Fred Hiatt, the editor of The Washington Post's editorial page, has suggested that Khanna is a thoughtful and new economic voice for the Democratic Party.[101]

Khanna has co-sponsored the Reward Work Act of 2018, to reform US labor law and corporate law by guaranteeing the right of employees in listed companies to elect one third of the board of directors.

Khanna supports the unionization of Starbucks[102] and Maximus,[103] and urged California lawmakers and Governor Gavin Newsom to enact AB257, which sets workplace standards covering the state’s fast-food industry, including wages, working hours, health and safety, and training.[104] Khanna led Congress in writing a letter to Howard Schultz to stand up for Starbucks workers' right to unionize.[105]

LGBTQI+ rights

Khanna led the legislation to implement a gender-inclusive "X" identifier on U.S. passports that served as a basis for the State Department’s action on the issue.[106]

NO PAC Caucus

In 2017, Khanna co-founded the NO PAC Caucus[107] in the House with two other members, Beto O'Rourke and Jared Polis. Three other U.S. Representatives now refuse all contributions from political action committees: Phil Roe, Francis Rooney, and John Sarbanes.[8] These members will not fill out questionnaires or pledge positions to political action committees in exchange for contributions. Khanna and O'Rourke also introduced a bill to ban PACs from contributing to members of Congress.[6][108]

In December 2018, Khanna, constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman and Senator Russ Feingold proposed a plan for "Democracy Dollars". Under the proposal, every American citizen would get $50 to spend on federal elections.[109][110] Khanna has also worked with Republican Representative Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin on reform proposals.[111]

Khanna has said he believes the Democratic Party needs to rethink its political program by running on progressive issues like free college, Medicare for all, and the removal of corporate influence and money from politics.[112]

Reforming H1B abuse

Khanna co-sponsored H.R.1303, a bipartisan companion bill to the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2017 designed to prevent the exploitation of foreign workers while still recognizing the contributions immigrants make to the US economy. The bill would overhaul the H-1B and L-1 visa programs to protect American workers and crack down on the outsourcing of American jobs abroad.[113]

Safety for Sex Workers

Khanna partnered with Senator Elizabeth Warren to study the impact of FOSTA/SESTA, including increased violence and sexual assault, on sex workers.[114][115][116]

Monopolistic behavior

Khanna founded and co-chairs the Antitrust Caucus in the House.[117] He has called for a reorientation of antitrust policy to consider the impact on jobs, wages, small business, and innovation, and for scrutiny of the Whole Foods/Amazon merger.[118][119]

In 2018, along with Senator Bernie Sanders, Khanna proposed the Stop BEZOS Act, which would tax firms for every dollar that employees earn in government health care benefits or food stamps.[120] The law would also make it illegal for any large company to investigate whether or not a potential employee receives federal assistance.[121] Khanna's rationale for the legislation was that it would force corporations to increase salaries for workers or pay for the welfare programs their employees rely on.[120] Economists at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published an analysis of the bill finding that it would hurt low-wage workers by giving corporations incentives not to hire workers that rely on federal assistance programs.[122][123] Khanna challenged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos directly, saying that if Bezos "announced that [he] would pay everyone at least a $15 minimum wage and reliable hours, [he] could set the standard.”[124] In response to Sanders's and Khanna's legislation and criticism, on October 2, 2018, Bezos announced that Amazon would raise wages of all employees to $15 an hour, effective November 2018.[125][126][127]

Khanna wrote a letter to the inspector general of the Department of Defense requesting that he look into TransDigm Group, an aviation-parts manufacturer, and supplier of companies like Boeing.[128] In his letter, Khanna said TransDigm may be bypassing rules that protect U.S. taxpayers since the manufacturer conducts business with the Pentagon. He said he wants to make sure the TransDigm Group is not adding unnecessary costs to the U.S. taxpayer and is not contributing to the $54 billion increase in defense spending proposed by the Trump administration.[129] TransDigm agreed to refund $16.1 million to the Defense Department.[130]

In November 2018, Khanna and Sanders introduced the Stop WALMART Act, intended to ban large companies from buying back their own stock unless the company has a minimum hourly wage of $15 for all employees, allows employees to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave, and pays the company's CEO or highest-paid employee no more than 150 times the median pay for employees.[131]

Pharmaceuticals

On November 20, 2018, Khanna and Sanders unveiled a bill intended to abolish monopolies on pharmaceuticals, regardless of any patents, and authorize companies to make cheaper generic versions of a drug if its price is higher than the median price in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. Sanders said in a statement that the United States was the only country in the world that allowed "pharmaceutical companies to charge any price they want for any reason they want" and that the "greed of the prescription drug industry is literally killing Americans".[132]

Foreign policy

On November 13, 2017, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning civilian deaths, starvation and the spread of disease in Yemen, admitting that much of the responsibility for that humanitarian crisis rests with the U.S. because of its support for a Saudi-led military intervention, and noting that the war has allowed al Qaeda, ISIL, and other groups to thrive.[133] Khanna, along with Representative Jim McGovern, co-sponsored the resolution on the House floor. The resolution passed with a bipartisan majority of 366–30.[134][135][136][137][138][139][140][141]

On September 27, 2017, Khanna and Representatives Thomas Massie, Mark Pocan, and Walter B. Jones Jr. submitted a bipartisan bill on the floor of the House that would halt U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen on the grounds that Congress never approved the American role in the war. In a joint statement with Pocan, Khanna said, "we aim to restore Congress as the constitutionally mandated branch of government that may declare war and retain oversight over it."[142][143][144] In an op-ed for The New York Times detailing the human cost of the continued war in Yemen, Khanna, Pocan, and Jones wrote, "We believe that the American people, if presented with the facts of this conflict, will oppose the use of their tax dollars to bomb and starve civilians in order to further the Saudi monarchy's regional goals."[145]

In December 2017, Khanna criticized President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying, "The United States and Israel share similar values of peace, democracy, and entrepreneurship. We should always look for ways to strengthen the relationship and address Israel’s legitimate security concerns. The President’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, however, is misguided and does not advance peace."[146]

On January 18, 2018, Khanna organized a group of 33 House members to sign a letter urging Trump to reestablish military-to-military communications with North Korea. He also called for two other steps that should be taken to alleviate tension with the DPRK. He reintroduced a bill explicitly stating that the President of the United States should not be allowed to launch a nuclear strike without congressional approval, and called upon Trump to send a bipartisan team to negotiate directly with the North Koreans.[147]

In November 2018, after American and Saudi officials announced that the Trump administration had halted its inflight refueling support for the Saudi-led coalition aircraft engaged in Yemen, Khanna called the decision "a major victory" while asserting the need for Congress to pass a resolution ensuring all American involvement was ended.[148] In February 2019, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill ending American support for the Saudi intervention in Yemen. Khanna noted that more than "14 million Yemenis—half the country—are on the brink of famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war" and called on Congress to "end American complicity in the atrocities in Yemen."[149] On February 13, after the House voted to withdraw support for the Saudis in Yemen, Khanna called the day "historic" and said he was "encouraged by the direction people are pushing our party to take on foreign policy, promoting restraint and human rights and with the sense they want Congress to play a much larger role."[150]

A supporter of a more non-interventionist foreign policy,[96] Khanna wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times with Senator Rand Paul on June 1, 2017, making the case against military interventions when US security is not at risk. They argued that the nation is weary of perpetual war since 2001, and that calls for regime change abroad have been a mistake.[151] Khanna has been critical of the strikes on Syria.[152]

On December 22, 2018, Khanna laid out the progressive case for withdrawal of military forces from Syria and Afghanistan, noting that Congress never authorized the involvement of U.S. troops in the Syrian civil war.[153]

Khanna has been working with former president Jimmy Carter, who has agreed to travel to North Korea to meet with Kim Jung Un; in 1994, Carter met with Kim's grandfather, Kim Il Sung.[154]

In 2019, Khanna was one of eight lawmakers to sign a pledge stating their intent "to fight to reclaim Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct oversight of U.S. foreign policy and independently debate whether to authorize each new use of military force" and to bring "the Forever War to a responsible and expedient conclusion" after 17 years of U.S. military conflict.[155]

In February 2019, Khanna introduced a resolution to end the Korean War while leaving American troops in Korea that urged the Trump administration to give "a clear roadmap for achieving a permanent peace regime and the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula." In a statement, Khanna said diplomacy between North and South Korea had "created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to formally end this war" and advocated that Trump "work hand in hand with our ally, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, to bring the war to a close and advance toward the denuclearization of the peninsula."[156]

In 2019, Khanna and Senator Rand Paul led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in signing a letter to Trump asserting that it is "long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and they hoped this would "serve as a model for ending hostilities in the future—in particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan.”[157] In a statement, Khanna said, "The president cannot pursue a foreign policy agenda without the advice and consent, let alone the support, of the Congress" and thanked Paul for helping him "in bringing an end to these wars", citing the Constitution as not being partisan.[158]

Khanna has been critical of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician criticized for misogynistic, homophobic and anti-immigrant views who has been embraced by the Trump administration as an ally and partner.[159][160] In March 2019 Khanna and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that read in part, "Since the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro’s agenda poses to the LGBTQ+ community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil. We are deeply concerned that, by targeting hard-won political and social rights, Bolsonaro is endangering Brazil’s long-term democratic future".[160] Khanna also asked the Trump administration to investigate the case that imprisoned former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on corruption charges, following The Intercept’s exposé that showed Judge Sérgio Moro plotted with prosecutors to convict Lula and prevent the Workers’ Party from returning to power.[161]

Police violence

Khanna led efforts in the House to make the standard for the use of force only as a last resort.[162] This was adopted in the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the House.[163] Khanna has also been a vocal advocate of abolishing the filibuster and passing voting rights legislation.[162]

Combating international anti-Semitism

On April 25, 2018, 57 members of the House of Representatives, led by Khanna, released a condemnation of Holocaust distortion in Ukraine and Poland. They criticized Poland's new Holocaust law and Ukraine's 2015 memory laws glorifying Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and its leaders, such as Roman Shukhevych.[164][165] The condemnation came in an open bipartisan letter to Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan.[166] The letter read in part, "We urge you to join us and human rights organizations in standing against anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and all forms of intolerance by calling for the Polish and Ukrainian governments to unequivocally reject Holocaust distortion and the honoring of Nazi collaborators and fully prosecute anti-Semitic crimes. We also ask that you detail what steps are being taken by the United States (U.S.) government to monitor instances of Holocaust distortion and ensure that the U.S. is not supporting or funding groups and individuals that promote or justify anti-Semitism. We believe these steps must include a firm request that these offensive laws be repealed."[167] California's State Assembly passed a separate resolution calling upon Congress to pressure Polish lawmakers to change this new Holocaust speech law.[168][169] Andrzej Pawluszek, an adviser to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, called the claims in Congress's letter "irresponsible and shocking."[170] The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (Vaad of Ukraine) also rebuked the letter, calling it "anti-Ukrainian defamation" like that used by Russian propaganda during the war in Ukraine.[171][172]

Combating Hindu nationalism

Varghese K. George of The Hindu called Khanna "an unequivocal and strong supporter of a pluralist America, and India-U.S. ties," who "for the same reason rejects Hindutva and its exclusive nationalism."[173] In a statement targeted at Tulsi Gabbard, Khanna said, "it is the duty of every American politician of Hindu faith to stand for pluralism, reject Hindutva, and speak for equal rights for Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Christians", a statement that was criticized in a letter published by the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) and signed by what was described as "a record number of 230 Indian-American organisations in the US", who also objected to Khanna's membership in the Congressional Caucus on Pakistan.[174]

Faith Leaders and the Democratic Party

Khanna worked with Reverend William Barber to convene over 50 clerics, from across America to address the moral emergency of voting rights, a livable wage, healthcare, housing, and the child tax credit.[175]

Working with the Biden administration

As of October 2021, Khanna had voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time.[176]

Abortion

Khanna opposed the overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling it "heartbreaking". He said the decision "strips Americans of their basic freedom and endangers the health and safety of millions. It strips women of the right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their futures", especially low-income women, women of color, and women living in rural areas.[177]

Term limits

Khanna has led a bill to limit Supreme Court justices' terms. In 2022, he called the Court's recent conservative decisions anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic.[178][179]

Free speech

Khanna is an advocate of free speech. In 2022, the publication of the Twitter Files highlighted his efforts to stop the former Twitter administration from censoring the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story.[180][181][182][183]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Elections

2004

See also: 2004 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 12

Khanna ran one of the nation's first anti-Iraq war campaigns for the United States House of Representatives in the 2004 elections, unsuccessfully challenging Tom Lantos in the Democratic primary in California's 12th congressional district.[187] He received endorsements from prominent officials, including Matt Gonzalez,[187] and newspapers, including the San Mateo County Times,[188] but lost.[189]

2012

See also: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 15

Khanna intended to run for the House in California's 15th congressional district in the 2012 election, hoping to succeed Democrat Pete Stark after Stark's eventual retirement, though stating he would not challenge Stark directly.[190] He raised $1.2 million, receiving support from Governor Brown, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo, and businessmen Vinod Khosla and John W. Thompson.[190] Khanna's fundraising total for the fourth quarter of 2011 exceeded that of all but two House candidates nationwide.[23] Eric Swalwell defeated Stark in 2012.[191]

2014

See also: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 17
United States House of Representatives elections, 2014[192]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Mike Honda (incumbent) 69,561 51.8
Democratic Ro Khanna 64,847 48.2
Total votes 134,408 100
Turnout  
Democratic hold

On April 2, 2013, Khanna announced that he would challenge Mike Honda in California's 17th congressional district in the 2014 midterm elections.[193] He assembled a campaign team composed of top members of President Barack Obama's reelection team, including Jeremy Bird, Obama's 2012 national field director, and Steve Spinner, one of Obama's top three fundraisers.[194] Khanna was backed by executives at Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and other tech companies,[195] and by the editorial boards of the San Jose Mercury News,[196] the San Francisco Chronicle,[197] the Oakland Tribune,[198] and the Contra Costa Times.[199] He earned the endorsement of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed,[200] and also won the endorsement of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce.[201]

A lawsuit was filed before the Sacramento County Superior Court alleging that Khanna had recruited candidates with similar names to enter the race as Republicans to split the Republican vote three ways. On March 28, 2014, the Court disqualified one of the candidates and ruled that Khanna had no connection with the incident.[202]

On November 4, 2014, incumbent congressman Honda defeated Khanna 69,561 (51.8%) votes to 64,847 (48.2%). Khanna's campaign was funded by many of the technology industry's biggest names, including Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Napster founder Sean Parker, investor Marc Andreessen, and venture capitalist Steve Westly.[203]

2016

See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 17
California's 17th congressional district primary election, 2016[204]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ro Khanna 52,059 39.1
Democratic Mike Honda (incumbent) 49,823 37.4
Republican Peter Kuo 12,224 9.2
Republican Ron Cohen 10,448 7.8
Democratic Pierluigi C. Oliverio 5,533 4.2
Libertarian Kennita Watson 3,125 2.3
Total votes 133,212 100
United States House of Representatives elections, 2016[205]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ro Khanna 142,262 61.0
Democratic Mike Honda (incumbent) 90,919 39.0
Total votes 233,181 100
Democratic hold

In June 2015, Khanna announced his intention to run again for the House in California's 17th congressional district.[206] He took no donations from PACs or corporations for his 2016 campaign. Khanna raised $480,500 from individuals associated with the securities and investment industry and $170,752 from individuals associated with the electronics manufacturing industry.[207] All these donations were subject to the $2,700 individual contributions cap. On June 7, 2016, Khanna won the primary with 52,059 (39.1%) votes.[208] Honda came in second with 49,823 (37.4%) votes. The two Democrats advanced to the general election on November 8, 2016. Khanna became the Representative-elect on November 8 after defeating Honda, 61% to 39%.[209] According to the East Bay Times, Khanna won with a campaign platform focused on "moving the Democratic Party to a more progressive stance." He held his first town hall as a congressman on February 22, 2017, at Ohlone College.[210]

During his successful campaign for Congress, Khanna endorsed Bernie Sanders for president of the United States in 2016.[211]

On May 10, 2017, Khanna officially joined the Justice Democrats.[212][112] He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus[213] and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.[214]

2018

See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 17

Khanna won reelection, defeating Republican Ron Cohen in the 2018 general election, by a margin of 72.5% to 27.5%.[215]

California's 17th congressional district election, 2018
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ro Khanna (incumbent) 72,676 62.0
Republican Ron Cohen 26,865 22.9
Democratic Khanh Tran 8,455 7.2
Democratic Stephen Forbes 6,259 5.3
Libertarian Kennita Watson 2,997 2.6
Total votes 117,252 100.0
General election
Democratic Ro Khanna (incumbent) 159,105 75.3
Republican Ron Cohen 52,057 24.7
Total votes 211,162 100.0
Democratic hold

2020

See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 17

Khanna was reelected, defeating Republican Ritesh Tandon in the general election with 71.3% of the vote.[216]

California's 17th congressional district, 2020
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ro Khanna (incumbent) 107,638 68.6
Republican Ritesh Tandon 33,527 21.4
Democratic Stephen Forbes 12,110 7.7
Libertarian Joe Dehn 3,523 2.2
Total votes 156,798 100.0
General election
Democratic Ro Khanna (incumbent) 212,137 71.3
Republican Ritesh Tandon 85,199 28.7
Total votes 297,336 100.0
Democratic hold

Khanna co-chaired the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.[217]

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 17
California's 17th congressional district, 2022[218]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ro Khanna (incumbent) 74,892 66.0
Republican Ritesh Tandon 28,730 25.3
Democratic Stephen Forbes 5,694 5.0
Democratic Rao Ravul 2,394 2.1
Libertarian Joe Dehn 1,836 1.6
Total votes 113,546 100.0
General election
Democratic Ro Khanna (incumbent) 127,724 70.9
Republican Ritesh Tandon 52,334 29.1
Total votes 180,058 100.0

Personal life

Khanna resides in Fremont, California, with his wife Ritu Khanna (née Ahuja), a fellow Indian-American, and their two children.[219] Ritu's father is Monte Ahuja, who in 1975 founded Transtar, an automotive transmission parts supply company in Solon, Ohio.[220][221][222]

As of 2016, Khanna was a vice president for Strategic Initiatives at Smart Utility Systems, an energy efficiency company with an office in Santa Clara. Smart Utility Systems produces software for water conservation and for reducing electricity consumption.[223][224]

Khanna is an Indian-American, a Punjabi-American and a practicing Hindu-American, describing his faith as "Gandhian Hinduism".[225][226]

Bibliography

  • Khanna, Ro (2022). Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of US. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1982163341.
  • Khanna, Ro (2012). Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America's Future. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 9780071802000.

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khanna, rohit, khanna, born, september, 1976, american, politician, lawyer, academic, serving, representative, from, california, 17th, congressional, district, since, 2017, member, democratic, party, defeated, eight, term, incumbent, democratic, representative. Rohit Khanna ˈ k ʌ n e born September 13 1976 is an American politician lawyer and academic serving as the U S representative from California s 17th congressional district since 2017 A member of the Democratic Party he defeated eight term incumbent Democratic Representative Mike Honda in the general election on November 8 2016 after first running for the same seat in 2014 Khanna also served as the deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from August 8 2009 to August 2011 Ro KhannaMember of the U S House of Representatives from California s 17th districtIncumbentAssumed office January 3 2017Preceded byMike HondaPersonal detailsBornRohit Khanna 1976 09 13 September 13 1976 age 46 Philadelphia Pennsylvania U S Political partyDemocraticSpouseRitu Ahuja m 2015 wbr Children2RelativesAmarnath Vidyalankar grandfather EducationUniversity of Chicago BA Yale University JD WebsiteHouse websiteKhanna identifies as a progressive capitalist and has called for a new economic patriotism as a governing philosophy 1 2 3 4 He states that he only accepts campaign donations from individuals and is one of only six members of the U S House of Representatives and ten members of Congress who state that they do not take campaign contributions from political action committees PACs or corporations 5 6 7 8 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early work in politics law and teaching 3 U S House of Representatives 3 1 Climate change 3 2 Internet Bill of Rights 3 3 Technology and manufacturing jobs 3 4 Economics 3 5 LGBTQI rights 3 6 NO PAC Caucus 3 7 Reforming H1B abuse 3 8 Safety for Sex Workers 3 9 Monopolistic behavior 3 10 Pharmaceuticals 3 11 Foreign policy 3 12 Police violence 3 13 Combating international anti Semitism 3 14 Combating Hindu nationalism 3 15 Faith Leaders and the Democratic Party 3 16 Working with the Biden administration 3 17 Abortion 3 18 Term limits 3 19 Free speech 3 20 Committee assignments 3 21 Caucus memberships 4 Elections 4 1 2004 4 2 2012 4 3 2014 4 4 2016 4 5 2018 4 6 2020 4 7 2022 5 Personal life 6 Bibliography 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksEarly life and education EditRohit Khanna was born on September 13 1976 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania into an Indian Punjabi Hindu family 9 His parents immigrated to the U S from Punjab India His father is a chemical engineer who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology IIT and then the University of Michigan his mother is a former schoolteacher 10 11 12 Khanna s maternal grandfather Amarnath Vidyalankar was from Bhera City Shahpur District Punjab Province British India now Bhera Sargodha District West Punjab Pakistan and was a part of the Indian independence movement working with Lala Lajpat Rai and spent years in jail in the pursuit of human rights and freedom 13 14 15 In a Boston Globe op ed Khanna and Representative John Lewis examined how Gandhi s movement was intertwined with the civil rights movement 16 Khanna graduated from Council Rock High School North a public school in Newtown Bucks County in 1994 17 He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with honors from the University of Chicago in 1998 where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa 10 18 19 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School of Yale University in 2001 After graduation Khanna clerked for federal appeals judge Morris Sheppard Arnold in Little Rock Arkansas In private practice he specialized in intellectual property law 18 Early work in politics law and teaching EditAs a student at the University of Chicago Khanna worked for William D Burns walking precincts during Barack Obama s first campaign for the Illinois Senate in 1996 20 21 22 Khanna interned for Jack Quinn when Quinn served as the chief of staff for Vice President Al Gore 23 As a sophomore he interned at former president Jimmy Carter s Carter Center Khanna worked at O Melveny amp Myers as an attorney representing technology companies on intellectual property and trade secret issues from 2004 to 2009 24 In 2009 President Barack Obama appointed Khanna deputy assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce 18 In that role 25 Khanna led international trade missions 26 and worked to increase United States exports 27 He was later appointed to the White House Business Council 25 Khanna left the Department of Commerce in August 2011 28 to join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich amp Rosati a law firm in Silicon Valley 29 His pro bono legal activity includes work with the Mississippi Center for Justice on several contractor fraud cases on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims and coauthoring an amicus brief to the U S Supreme Court in the Mt Holly case to allow race discrimination suits under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 30 31 As part of a pro bono legal team Khanna filed an amicus brief on behalf of 13 of the country s leading social scientists in the Supreme Court case Fisher v University of Texas 2016 That brief included research on how a diverse educational environment benefits students and cited studies showing that race conscious admissions policies known as affirmative action used by institutions like the University of Texas result in a more diverse student body 32 33 34 Khanna was a visiting lecturer of economics at Stanford University from 2012 to 2016 taught law at the Santa Clara University School of Law 10 and taught American jurisprudence at San Francisco State University 35 In 2012 he published a book on American competitiveness in business Entrepreneurial Nation Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America s Future 25 36 Governor Jerry Brown appointed Khanna to the California Workforce Investment Board in 2012 37 Khanna served on the board of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte from 2006 until 2013 while on leave from the Obama Administration 38 In 2014 Khanna left Wilson Sonsini for his first unsuccessful campaign for California s 17th congressional district seat 39 He lost a close election to the incumbent Mike Honda but garnered substantial support from the Silicon Valley tech industry 40 He then took a job as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Smart Utility Systems In 2016 he challenged Honda again and won with significant support from venture capital firms and tech companies 41 He was reelected in 2018 2020 and 2022 U S House of Representatives EditClimate change Edit As chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment Khanna presided over the Big Oil hearing bringing the CEOs of ExxonMobil Chevron Shell and British Petroleum to appear before Congress under oath to investigate their spreading of disinformation about climate change The hearing took place on October 28 2021 As late as 2000 Exxon advertised in The New York Times that scientists have been unable to confirm that burning fossil fuels causes climate change The Big Oil hearings were the first time oil executives were compelled to answer questions under oath about whether their corporations misled the public about the effects burning oil gas and coal have on raising the earth s temperature and extreme weather patterns like intensifying storms deadlier wildfires and worsening droughts 42 During the hearing Khanna called on the executives to Spare us the spin today We have no interest in it Spin doesn t work under oath 43 In an interview with Yahoo Finance Khanna described the oil industry s role in obfuscating climate science We will have scores of evidence that these big oil companies misrepresented to the American public the threat of climate change They cast doubt and uncertainty even though they had scientists in their own company telling them that climate change and climate crisis was going to be catastrophic And that they continue to engage in a pattern of deception 44 Khanna led the House Committee on Oversight and Reform s two year investigation which uncovered documents showing how Big Oil continues to mislead the public about its commitment to climate goals 45 Khanna played a key role in year long negotiations with Senator Joe Manchin to secure the 369 billion climate investment in the Inflation Reduction Act and bring House progressives and environmental groups on board 46 47 48 Khanna criticized oil executives for increasing their oil production in October 28 2021 49 conversely in March 2022 he called for an increase in production after gas prices increased 50 In a Wall Street Journal piece Khanna laid out a comprehensive strategy to increase production and supply in the short term to dramatically lower prices for the working class and to have a moonshot in renewable energy for the long run to diversify energy sources and stabilize prices 51 In a New York Times piece Khanna called on Biden to do way more to lower gas prices by having the Strategic Petroleum Reserve buy and sell oil cheaply to stabilize prices 52 Khanna called climate activist Greta Thunberg to testify in a hearing on eliminating fossil fuel subsidies 53 and worked with executive director of Greenpeace Annie Leonard to lead the campaign to stop new fossil fuel permitting in California 54 55 As chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment Khanna has been working with President Joe Biden to refashion his climate agenda 56 In 2018 Khanna signed on to then Representative elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez s Green New Deal proposal which seeks to form a climate change plan with a goal of a 100 renewable energy economy 57 58 59 In March 2019 Khanna was one of 14 members of the House to cosponsor the PFAS Detection Act legislation intended to provide 45 million to the U S Geological Survey for the purpose of developing advanced technologies that can detect PFAS and afterward conduct nationwide sampling for PFAS in the environment 60 In a December 2019 New York Times op ed Khanna and former secretary of state John Kerry laid out a plan for how America should win the green energy race analogizing it to the space race 61 Khanna and Kerry called for expanding the electric vehicle tax credit to make it fully refundable at the time of purchase This would mean that a person would receive money back immediately when buying an electric vehicle rather than waiting a year for a tax refund They also called for an exponential increase in the Advanced Research Projects Agency s budget and for doubling the budgets for the Energy Department s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Science which they say would support renewable energy research to foster the sort of innovation necessary to meet the scale and urgency of the climate challenge Kerry and Khanna also called for the creation of an infrastructure bank to finance a high speed rail system to relieve congestion reduce pollution increase energy efficiency and provide alternatives to regional air travel Finally Khanna and Kerry called for the US to match China s annual investment in public private partnerships noting that China spent 126 billion on renewable energy investments in 2016 while the US spent just over 40 billion 62 Khanna has said that creating a Select Committee specifically dedicated to a Green New Deal would be a very commonsense idea based on the recent example of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming 2007 2011 which proved effective in developing a 2009 bill for cap and trade legislation 63 64 Internet Bill of Rights Edit Khanna at a Net Neutrality demonstration in Washington D C In April 2018 Nancy Pelosi asked Khanna to draft the Internet Bill of Rights in wake of Cambridge Analytica s breach and Mark Zuckerberg s testimony to Congress 65 66 In October 2018 Khanna released a set of principles for an Internet Bill of Rights including the right of US citizens to have full knowledge of and control over their personal online data the right to be notified and consent when an entity seeks to collect or sell one s personal data and the guarantee of net neutrality 67 The inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners Lee has endorsed Khanna s principles for the Internet Bill of Rights saying This bill of rights provides a set of principles that are about giving users more control of their online lives while creating a healthier internet economy 68 Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton praised the efforts to establish an Internet Bill of Rights in her keynote speech at Mansfield College Oxford saying it is past time to demand that all nations and corporations respect the right of individuals to control their own data There is important work now being done by technologists like Tim Berners Lee the inventor of the World Wide Web and Ro Khanna the U S Congressman representing Silicon Valley They are trying to develop guidelines for how this could work 69 Technology and manufacturing jobs Edit Khanna Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator Todd Young and Representative Mike Gallagher coauthored the Endless Frontier Act a massive increase in science funding that creates technology hubs across the nation 70 The White House invited Khanna to be on stage with President Biden when he signed the Chips and Science bill This law is based on Khanna s Endless Frontiers bill and is one of the largest investments in science and in chip manufacturing in American history 71 Khanna s Valor Act passed both the House and the Senate and was signed by President Donald Trump on November 21 2017 The legislation makes it easier for companies to offer veterans apprenticeships 72 73 Trump signed Khanna s second bill the IDEA Act into law on December 20 2018 It requires all federal agencies to modernize their websites to the standard of the private sector 74 In a New York Times op ed Khanna laid out his vision for bringing technology jobs to rural and small town America He called for additional funds to existing community colleges and land grant universities to create technology institutes 75 endorsed an 80 billion investment in high speed fiber internet throughout the country and called for federal incentives for government hiring of rural based software development companies 76 Khanna also led a delegation of Silicon Valley executives to Jefferson Iowa where they partnered with local community colleges and Pillar Technology to create software designer jobs paying 65 000 a year 77 78 79 80 Khanna has argued that Silicon Valley should share its economic success with the rest of the U S 81 2 He has also been a longtime supporter of bringing advanced manufacturing jobs across America the topic of his book Entrepreneurial Nation Why Manufacturing Is Still Key To America s Future 82 In March 2017 Khanna traveled to Paintsville Kentucky also known as Silicon Holler with a bipartisan delegation from Congress to lend support to TechHire Eastern Kentucky a program that trains Kentuckians in fields like computer technology and coding He expressed support for a broad technology apprenticeship program that could help areas of the United States like Appalachia by giving blue collar workers the skills they need to launch careers in the technology sector 83 84 85 The press has called Khanna the Ambassador of Silicon Valley 86 84 In May 2017 Khanna stood up for the Appalachian Regional Commission and Manufacturing Externship Partnership a Reagan era policy when Trump s proposed 2018 budget zeroed out its funding Khanna called for quadrupling the program s budget 87 Khanna passed his first legislative initiative as the lead Democrat with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to enable veterans to use GI funding for tech training programs 88 Khanna called on Silicon Valley executives and technology companies to do more nationwide to create tech jobs and diversify their recruiting efforts by making sure to recruit the next generation of tech workers from not just Ivy League institutions but also state schools and historically black colleges and universities In a Washington Post op ed Khanna wrote Tech companies must offer an aspirational vision of how all Americans regardless of geography can benefit from a tech driven economy This means making investments not just in California Massachusetts and New York but also in start ups and entrepreneurs in cities and rural communities across the nation 89 In February 2018 Khanna and Representative Tim Ryan led a tour of venture capitalists encouraging them to invest in middle America 90 91 Khanna has been called an unconventional ambassador for the Democratic Party in bringing technology and innovation across America 92 Economics Edit Khanna has called on his colleagues to adopt a more progressive economic platform 93 94 He is an original co sponsor of Senator Bernie Sanders s College For All Act legislation aiming to make public colleges tuition free 95 He also has proposed 1 trillion expansion of the earned income tax credit EITC 96 97 financed by a financial transaction tax to help working families across America 98 In the Budget Committee Khanna pointed out that Trump was for a single payer healthcare system in 2000 99 Khanna now supports a House bill to provide Medicare for All 100 Fred Hiatt the editor of The Washington Post s editorial page has suggested that Khanna is a thoughtful and new economic voice for the Democratic Party 101 Khanna has co sponsored the Reward Work Act of 2018 to reform US labor law and corporate law by guaranteeing the right of employees in listed companies to elect one third of the board of directors Khanna supports the unionization of Starbucks 102 and Maximus 103 and urged California lawmakers and Governor Gavin Newsom to enact AB257 which sets workplace standards covering the state s fast food industry including wages working hours health and safety and training 104 Khanna led Congress in writing a letter to Howard Schultz to stand up for Starbucks workers right to unionize 105 LGBTQI rights Edit Khanna led the legislation to implement a gender inclusive X identifier on U S passports that served as a basis for the State Department s action on the issue 106 NO PAC Caucus Edit In 2017 Khanna co founded the NO PAC Caucus 107 in the House with two other members Beto O Rourke and Jared Polis Three other U S Representatives now refuse all contributions from political action committees Phil Roe Francis Rooney and John Sarbanes 8 These members will not fill out questionnaires or pledge positions to political action committees in exchange for contributions Khanna and O Rourke also introduced a bill to ban PACs from contributing to members of Congress 6 108 In December 2018 Khanna constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman and Senator Russ Feingold proposed a plan for Democracy Dollars Under the proposal every American citizen would get 50 to spend on federal elections 109 110 Khanna has also worked with Republican Representative Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin on reform proposals 111 Khanna has said he believes the Democratic Party needs to rethink its political program by running on progressive issues like free college Medicare for all and the removal of corporate influence and money from politics 112 Reforming H1B abuse Edit Khanna co sponsored H R 1303 a bipartisan companion bill to the H 1B and L 1 Visa Reform Act of 2017 designed to prevent the exploitation of foreign workers while still recognizing the contributions immigrants make to the US economy The bill would overhaul the H 1B and L 1 visa programs to protect American workers and crack down on the outsourcing of American jobs abroad 113 Safety for Sex Workers Edit Khanna partnered with Senator Elizabeth Warren to study the impact of FOSTA SESTA including increased violence and sexual assault on sex workers 114 115 116 Monopolistic behavior Edit Khanna founded and co chairs the Antitrust Caucus in the House 117 He has called for a reorientation of antitrust policy to consider the impact on jobs wages small business and innovation and for scrutiny of the Whole Foods Amazon merger 118 119 In 2018 along with Senator Bernie Sanders Khanna proposed the Stop BEZOS Act which would tax firms for every dollar that employees earn in government health care benefits or food stamps 120 The law would also make it illegal for any large company to investigate whether or not a potential employee receives federal assistance 121 Khanna s rationale for the legislation was that it would force corporations to increase salaries for workers or pay for the welfare programs their employees rely on 120 Economists at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published an analysis of the bill finding that it would hurt low wage workers by giving corporations incentives not to hire workers that rely on federal assistance programs 122 123 Khanna challenged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos directly saying that if Bezos announced that he would pay everyone at least a 15 minimum wage and reliable hours he could set the standard 124 In response to Sanders s and Khanna s legislation and criticism on October 2 2018 Bezos announced that Amazon would raise wages of all employees to 15 an hour effective November 2018 125 126 127 Khanna wrote a letter to the inspector general of the Department of Defense requesting that he look into TransDigm Group an aviation parts manufacturer and supplier of companies like Boeing 128 In his letter Khanna said TransDigm may be bypassing rules that protect U S taxpayers since the manufacturer conducts business with the Pentagon He said he wants to make sure the TransDigm Group is not adding unnecessary costs to the U S taxpayer and is not contributing to the 54 billion increase in defense spending proposed by the Trump administration 129 TransDigm agreed to refund 16 1 million to the Defense Department 130 In November 2018 Khanna and Sanders introduced the Stop WALMART Act intended to ban large companies from buying back their own stock unless the company has a minimum hourly wage of 15 for all employees allows employees to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave and pays the company s CEO or highest paid employee no more than 150 times the median pay for employees 131 Pharmaceuticals Edit On November 20 2018 Khanna and Sanders unveiled a bill intended to abolish monopolies on pharmaceuticals regardless of any patents and authorize companies to make cheaper generic versions of a drug if its price is higher than the median price in Canada the United Kingdom Germany France and Japan Sanders said in a statement that the United States was the only country in the world that allowed pharmaceutical companies to charge any price they want for any reason they want and that the greed of the prescription drug industry is literally killing Americans 132 Foreign policy Edit On November 13 2017 the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning civilian deaths starvation and the spread of disease in Yemen admitting that much of the responsibility for that humanitarian crisis rests with the U S because of its support for a Saudi led military intervention and noting that the war has allowed al Qaeda ISIL and other groups to thrive 133 Khanna along with Representative Jim McGovern co sponsored the resolution on the House floor The resolution passed with a bipartisan majority of 366 30 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 On September 27 2017 Khanna and Representatives Thomas Massie Mark Pocan and Walter B Jones Jr submitted a bipartisan bill on the floor of the House that would halt U S military assistance to the Saudi led campaign in Yemen on the grounds that Congress never approved the American role in the war In a joint statement with Pocan Khanna said we aim to restore Congress as the constitutionally mandated branch of government that may declare war and retain oversight over it 142 143 144 In an op ed for The New York Times detailing the human cost of the continued war in Yemen Khanna Pocan and Jones wrote We believe that the American people if presented with the facts of this conflict will oppose the use of their tax dollars to bomb and starve civilians in order to further the Saudi monarchy s regional goals 145 In December 2017 Khanna criticized President Trump s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel saying The United States and Israel share similar values of peace democracy and entrepreneurship We should always look for ways to strengthen the relationship and address Israel s legitimate security concerns The President s decision to move the U S embassy to Jerusalem however is misguided and does not advance peace 146 On January 18 2018 Khanna organized a group of 33 House members to sign a letter urging Trump to reestablish military to military communications with North Korea He also called for two other steps that should be taken to alleviate tension with the DPRK He reintroduced a bill explicitly stating that the President of the United States should not be allowed to launch a nuclear strike without congressional approval and called upon Trump to send a bipartisan team to negotiate directly with the North Koreans 147 In November 2018 after American and Saudi officials announced that the Trump administration had halted its inflight refueling support for the Saudi led coalition aircraft engaged in Yemen Khanna called the decision a major victory while asserting the need for Congress to pass a resolution ensuring all American involvement was ended 148 In February 2019 the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill ending American support for the Saudi intervention in Yemen Khanna noted that more than 14 million Yemenis half the country are on the brink of famine and at least 85 000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war and called on Congress to end American complicity in the atrocities in Yemen 149 On February 13 after the House voted to withdraw support for the Saudis in Yemen Khanna called the day historic and said he was encouraged by the direction people are pushing our party to take on foreign policy promoting restraint and human rights and with the sense they want Congress to play a much larger role 150 A supporter of a more non interventionist foreign policy 96 Khanna wrote an op ed for the Los Angeles Times with Senator Rand Paul on June 1 2017 making the case against military interventions when US security is not at risk They argued that the nation is weary of perpetual war since 2001 and that calls for regime change abroad have been a mistake 151 Khanna has been critical of the strikes on Syria 152 On December 22 2018 Khanna laid out the progressive case for withdrawal of military forces from Syria and Afghanistan noting that Congress never authorized the involvement of U S troops in the Syrian civil war 153 Khanna has been working with former president Jimmy Carter who has agreed to travel to North Korea to meet with Kim Jung Un in 1994 Carter met with Kim s grandfather Kim Il Sung 154 In 2019 Khanna was one of eight lawmakers to sign a pledge stating their intent to fight to reclaim Congress s constitutional authority to conduct oversight of U S foreign policy and independently debate whether to authorize each new use of military force and to bring the Forever War to a responsible and expedient conclusion after 17 years of U S military conflict 155 In February 2019 Khanna introduced a resolution to end the Korean War while leaving American troops in Korea that urged the Trump administration to give a clear roadmap for achieving a permanent peace regime and the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula In a statement Khanna said diplomacy between North and South Korea had created a once in a generation opportunity to formally end this war and advocated that Trump work hand in hand with our ally South Korean President Moon Jae in to bring the war to a close and advance toward the denuclearization of the peninsula 156 In 2019 Khanna and Senator Rand Paul led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in signing a letter to Trump asserting that it is long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization and they hoped this would serve as a model for ending hostilities in the future in particular as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan 157 In a statement Khanna said The president cannot pursue a foreign policy agenda without the advice and consent let alone the support of the Congress and thanked Paul for helping him in bringing an end to these wars citing the Constitution as not being partisan 158 Khanna has been critical of Brazil s president Jair Bolsonaro a far right politician criticized for misogynistic homophobic and anti immigrant views who has been embraced by the Trump administration as an ally and partner 159 160 In March 2019 Khanna and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that read in part Since the election of far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro s agenda poses to the LGBTQ community and other minority communities women labor activists and political dissidents in Brazil We are deeply concerned that by targeting hard won political and social rights Bolsonaro is endangering Brazil s long term democratic future 160 Khanna also asked the Trump administration to investigate the case that imprisoned former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on corruption charges following The Intercept s expose that showed Judge Sergio Moro plotted with prosecutors to convict Lula and prevent the Workers Party from returning to power 161 Police violence Edit Khanna led efforts in the House to make the standard for the use of force only as a last resort 162 This was adopted in the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act which passed the House 163 Khanna has also been a vocal advocate of abolishing the filibuster and passing voting rights legislation 162 Combating international anti Semitism Edit On April 25 2018 57 members of the House of Representatives led by Khanna released a condemnation of Holocaust distortion in Ukraine and Poland They criticized Poland s new Holocaust law and Ukraine s 2015 memory laws glorifying Ukrainian Insurgent Army UPA and its leaders such as Roman Shukhevych 164 165 The condemnation came in an open bipartisan letter to Deputy Secretary of State John J Sullivan 166 The letter read in part We urge you to join us and human rights organizations in standing against anti Semitism xenophobia and all forms of intolerance by calling for the Polish and Ukrainian governments to unequivocally reject Holocaust distortion and the honoring of Nazi collaborators and fully prosecute anti Semitic crimes We also ask that you detail what steps are being taken by the United States U S government to monitor instances of Holocaust distortion and ensure that the U S is not supporting or funding groups and individuals that promote or justify anti Semitism We believe these steps must include a firm request that these offensive laws be repealed 167 California s State Assembly passed a separate resolution calling upon Congress to pressure Polish lawmakers to change this new Holocaust speech law 168 169 Andrzej Pawluszek an adviser to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the claims in Congress s letter irresponsible and shocking 170 The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine Vaad of Ukraine also rebuked the letter calling it anti Ukrainian defamation like that used by Russian propaganda during the war in Ukraine 171 172 Combating Hindu nationalism Edit Varghese K George of The Hindu called Khanna an unequivocal and strong supporter of a pluralist America and India U S ties who for the same reason rejects Hindutva and its exclusive nationalism 173 In a statement targeted at Tulsi Gabbard Khanna said it is the duty of every American politician of Hindu faith to stand for pluralism reject Hindutva and speak for equal rights for Hindus Muslims Sikhs Buddhists and Christians a statement that was criticized in a letter published by the Hindu American Foundation HAF and signed by what was described as a record number of 230 Indian American organisations in the US who also objected to Khanna s membership in the Congressional Caucus on Pakistan 174 Faith Leaders and the Democratic Party Edit Khanna worked with Reverend William Barber to convene over 50 clerics from across America to address the moral emergency of voting rights a livable wage healthcare housing and the child tax credit 175 Working with the Biden administration Edit As of October 2021 Khanna had voted in line with Joe Biden s stated position 100 of the time 176 Abortion Edit Khanna opposed the overturning of Roe v Wade calling it heartbreaking He said the decision strips Americans of their basic freedom and endangers the health and safety of millions It strips women of the right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their futures especially low income women women of color and women living in rural areas 177 Term limits Edit Khanna has led a bill to limit Supreme Court justices terms In 2022 he called the Court s recent conservative decisions anti egalitarian and anti democratic 178 179 Free speech Edit Khanna is an advocate of free speech In 2022 the publication of the Twitter Files highlighted his efforts to stop the former Twitter administration from censoring the New York Post s Hunter Biden laptop story 180 181 182 183 Committee assignments Edit Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber Innovative Technologies and Information Systems Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges Energy and Credit Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment Chair Subcommittee on Government OperationsCaucus memberships Edit Climate Solutions Caucus 184 NOPAC Caucus 185 India Caucus 185 Pakistan Caucus 185 Vietnamese Caucus 185 Antitrust Caucus 185 Congressional Progressive Caucus 186 Medicare for All CaucusElections Edit2004 Edit See also 2004 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 12 Khanna ran one of the nation s first anti Iraq war campaigns for the United States House of Representatives in the 2004 elections unsuccessfully challenging Tom Lantos in the Democratic primary in California s 12th congressional district 187 He received endorsements from prominent officials including Matt Gonzalez 187 and newspapers including the San Mateo County Times 188 but lost 189 2012 Edit See also 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 15 Khanna intended to run for the House in California s 15th congressional district in the 2012 election hoping to succeed Democrat Pete Stark after Stark s eventual retirement though stating he would not challenge Stark directly 190 He raised 1 2 million receiving support from Governor Brown House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo and businessmen Vinod Khosla and John W Thompson 190 Khanna s fundraising total for the fourth quarter of 2011 exceeded that of all but two House candidates nationwide 23 Eric Swalwell defeated Stark in 2012 191 2014 Edit See also 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 17 United States House of Representatives elections 2014 192 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Mike Honda incumbent 69 561 51 8Democratic Ro Khanna 64 847 48 2Total votes 134 408 100Turnout Democratic holdOn April 2 2013 Khanna announced that he would challenge Mike Honda in California s 17th congressional district in the 2014 midterm elections 193 He assembled a campaign team composed of top members of President Barack Obama s reelection team including Jeremy Bird Obama s 2012 national field director and Steve Spinner one of Obama s top three fundraisers 194 Khanna was backed by executives at Google Facebook Yahoo and other tech companies 195 and by the editorial boards of the San Jose Mercury News 196 the San Francisco Chronicle 197 the Oakland Tribune 198 and the Contra Costa Times 199 He earned the endorsement of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed 200 and also won the endorsement of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce 201 A lawsuit was filed before the Sacramento County Superior Court alleging that Khanna had recruited candidates with similar names to enter the race as Republicans to split the Republican vote three ways On March 28 2014 the Court disqualified one of the candidates and ruled that Khanna had no connection with the incident 202 On November 4 2014 incumbent congressman Honda defeated Khanna 69 561 51 8 votes to 64 847 48 2 Khanna s campaign was funded by many of the technology industry s biggest names including Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Napster founder Sean Parker investor Marc Andreessen and venture capitalist Steve Westly 203 2016 Edit See also 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 17 California s 17th congressional district primary election 2016 204 Primary electionParty Candidate Votes Democratic Ro Khanna 52 059 39 1Democratic Mike Honda incumbent 49 823 37 4Republican Peter Kuo 12 224 9 2Republican Ron Cohen 10 448 7 8Democratic Pierluigi C Oliverio 5 533 4 2Libertarian Kennita Watson 3 125 2 3Total votes 133 212 100United States House of Representatives elections 2016 205 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Ro Khanna 142 262 61 0Democratic Mike Honda incumbent 90 919 39 0Total votes 233 181 100Democratic holdIn June 2015 Khanna announced his intention to run again for the House in California s 17th congressional district 206 He took no donations from PACs or corporations for his 2016 campaign Khanna raised 480 500 from individuals associated with the securities and investment industry and 170 752 from individuals associated with the electronics manufacturing industry 207 All these donations were subject to the 2 700 individual contributions cap On June 7 2016 Khanna won the primary with 52 059 39 1 votes 208 Honda came in second with 49 823 37 4 votes The two Democrats advanced to the general election on November 8 2016 Khanna became the Representative elect on November 8 after defeating Honda 61 to 39 209 According to the East Bay Times Khanna won with a campaign platform focused on moving the Democratic Party to a more progressive stance He held his first town hall as a congressman on February 22 2017 at Ohlone College 210 During his successful campaign for Congress Khanna endorsed Bernie Sanders for president of the United States in 2016 211 On May 10 2017 Khanna officially joined the Justice Democrats 212 112 He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus 213 and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus 214 2018 Edit See also 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 17 Khanna won reelection defeating Republican Ron Cohen in the 2018 general election by a margin of 72 5 to 27 5 215 California s 17th congressional district election 2018 Primary electionParty Candidate Votes Democratic Ro Khanna incumbent 72 676 62 0Republican Ron Cohen 26 865 22 9Democratic Khanh Tran 8 455 7 2Democratic Stephen Forbes 6 259 5 3Libertarian Kennita Watson 2 997 2 6Total votes 117 252 100 0General electionDemocratic Ro Khanna incumbent 159 105 75 3Republican Ron Cohen 52 057 24 7Total votes 211 162 100 0Democratic hold2020 Edit See also 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 17 Khanna was reelected defeating Republican Ritesh Tandon in the general election with 71 3 of the vote 216 California s 17th congressional district 2020 Primary electionParty Candidate Votes Democratic Ro Khanna incumbent 107 638 68 6Republican Ritesh Tandon 33 527 21 4Democratic Stephen Forbes 12 110 7 7Libertarian Joe Dehn 3 523 2 2Total votes 156 798 100 0General electionDemocratic Ro Khanna incumbent 212 137 71 3Republican Ritesh Tandon 85 199 28 7Total votes 297 336 100 0Democratic holdKhanna co chaired the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign 217 2022 Edit See also 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in California District 17 California s 17th congressional district 2022 218 Primary electionParty Candidate Votes Democratic Ro Khanna incumbent 74 892 66 0Republican Ritesh Tandon 28 730 25 3Democratic Stephen Forbes 5 694 5 0Democratic Rao Ravul 2 394 2 1Libertarian Joe Dehn 1 836 1 6Total votes 113 546 100 0General electionDemocratic Ro Khanna incumbent 127 724 70 9Republican Ritesh Tandon 52 334 29 1Total votes 180 058 100 0Personal life EditKhanna resides in Fremont California with his wife Ritu Khanna nee Ahuja a fellow Indian American and their two children 219 Ritu s father is Monte Ahuja who in 1975 founded Transtar an automotive transmission parts supply company in Solon Ohio 220 221 222 As of 2016 Khanna was a vice president for Strategic Initiatives at Smart Utility Systems an energy efficiency company with an office in Santa Clara Smart Utility Systems produces software for water conservation and for reducing electricity consumption 223 224 Khanna is an Indian American a Punjabi American and a practicing Hindu American describing his faith as Gandhian Hinduism 225 226 Bibliography EditKhanna Ro 2022 Dignity in a Digital Age Making Tech Work for All of US Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 1982163341 Khanna Ro 2012 Entrepreneurial Nation Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America s Future McGraw Hill Professional ISBN 9780071802000 See also EditCongressional Asian Pacific American Caucus List of United States representatives from California List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans in the United States Congress 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in California Politics of CaliforniaReferences Edit How progressive capitalism can be the recipe for economic growth and innovation foxbusiness 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say dire climate reports point to need for Green New Deal The Hill Sen Baldwin helps introduce PFAS Detection Act nbc15 com March 29 2019 Khanna Ro Kerry John December 9 2018 Don t Let China Win the Green Race The New York Times For every 1 the US put into adding renewable energy last year China put in 3 Quartz April 9 2018 Homan Timothy R November 24 2018 Five things to know about Ocasio Cortez s Green New Deal The Hill Archived from the original on November 26 2018 Cama Timothy November 30 2018 Dems rally for Green New Deal The Hill Archived from the original on December 1 2018 Rep Ro Khanna tapped by Pelosi to draft Internet Bill of Rights April 21 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 Should Facebook be Regulated Silicon Valley Lawmaker Wants Internet Bill of Rights Newsweek Archived from the original on April 23 2018 Retrieved April 27 2018 Swisher Kara October 4 2018 Opinion Introducing the Internet Bill of Rights The New York Times Retrieved October 23 2018 Sullivan Mark October 4 2018 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refueling of Saudi aircraft bombing Yemen Politico November 9 2018 Desiderio Andrew February 6 2019 House Dems defy Trump on Yemen and Saudi Arabia House passes bill to end US support for Saudi war in Yemen The Hill February 13 2019 The case for restraint in American foreign policy June 1 2017 Retrieved October 21 2017 via LA Times Rep Khanna on Syria Nation hasn t learned its lesson msnbc com Retrieved October 21 2017 Trump was right to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan This is what he should do next The Washington Post December 22 2018 Retrieved January 13 2019 Bernard Katie March 7 2019 Congressman Jimmy Carter is willing to travel to North Korea to help Trump CNN Retrieved March 11 2019 Sanders Ocasio Cortez back end the forever war pledge The Hill March 5 2019 Mitchell Ellen February 26 2019 Dems offer resolution calling for end to Korean War The Hill Everett Burgess April 3 2019 Rand Paul Ocasio Cortez praise Trump for Syria withdrawal Politico Bolton Alexander April 3 2019 Rand Paul teams up with Ocasio Cortez Omar to press Trump on Syria withdrawal The Hill U S Lawmakers Want Severe Consequences for Brazil If Jair Bolsonaro Delivers on Promised Violence The Intercept October 25 2018 a b Brazil s far right president tweeted out a pornographic video to condemn Carnival Vox March 6 2019 Chavez Aida Lacy Akela June 11 2019 Bernie Sanders Calls for Brazil s Judiciary to Release Lula in Wake of Corruption Exposure The Intercept Retrieved June 13 2019 a b Mohyeldin Ayman September 18 2021 Rep Ro Khanna on passing voting rights legislation This is an obligation a duty MSNBC com Retrieved June 1 2022 Justice in Policing Act judiciary house gov RELEASE Rep Khanna Leads Bipartisan Members In Condemning Anti Semitism in Europe April 25 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 History Defending April 25 2018 57 Members of US House of Representatives Condemn Holocaust Distortion in Ukraine and Poland Retrieved December 10 2018 Congress members call out Ukraine government for glorifying Nazis Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jta org April 25 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction Device pdf PDF Retrieved December 22 2018 Bill Text AJR 35 Polish law Holocaust speech leginfo legislature ca gov Retrieved July 26 2018 State Assembly resolution urges changes in Polish Holocaust law J J Weekly May 30 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 Poland criticizes US claim that Polish law glorifies Nazism the Washington Post The Washington Post Archived from the original on April 26 2018 Retrieved June 6 2018 Zayava Prezidiyi Vaadu Ukrayini u zv yazku z listom kongresmeniv SShA pro situaciyu z antisemitizmom v Polshi ta Ukrayini May 10 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 Pro yakij antisemitizm pishut kongresmeni SShA Zayava Vaad Ukrayini istpravda com ua Retrieved July 26 2018 George Varghese K September 21 2019 One people many countries The Hindu Retrieved August 8 2020 230 Indian American organisations urge Congressman RO Khanna to withdraw from Pakistan Caucus The Economic Times September 17 2019 Retrieved October 13 2019 Staff Miami Times September 20 2022 Faith leaders declare moral emergency miamitimesonline com Miami Times Retrieved September 29 2022 The briefing with Barber Rev Liz Theoharis co chair of the PPC NCMR and director of the Kairos Center for Religions Rights and Social Justice Rev Kazimir Brown director of religious affairs for Repairers of the Breach and Democratic Rep Ro Khanna of California will begin at 9 a m Bycoffe Anna Wiederkehr and Aaron October 22 2021 Does Your Member Of Congress Vote With Or Against Biden Retrieved October 29 2021 Khanna Ro June 24 2022 Today s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade strips Americans of their basic freedom and endangers the health and safety of millions It strips women of the right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their futures Twitter Retrieved June 27 2022 Cal Sophia June 25 2022 First Look Ro Khanna to push Biden to bak SCOTUS term limits Axios Retrieved June 26 2022 Khanna Ro June 25 2022 A crisis of legitimacy for the Supreme Court medium com Retrieved June 26 2022 Khanna Ro Opinion Twitter s Duty to Protect Free Speech WSJ Retrieved December 10 2022 Vlamis Kelsey Democratic Rep Ro Khanna reached out to Twitter as it suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story to voice concerns about violating free speech and press freedom principles Business Insider Retrieved December 10 2022 Khaled Fatma December 3 2022 Ro Khanna warned Twitter of backlash for suppressing Hunter Biden story Newsweek Retrieved December 10 2022 Staff Fox News December 9 2022 Democratic lawmaker says Twitter censorship went too far Simply not what we do in this country Fox News Retrieved December 10 2022 90 Current Climate Solutions Caucus Members Citizen s Climate Lobby Retrieved November 22 2018 a b c d e Ro Khanna 115th Congress Caucus Memberships US House of Representatives December 13 2012 Retrieved August 4 2020 Caucus Membrs US House of Representatives Retrieved January 3 2021 a b Jouvenal Justin January 17 2004 City Supervisor endorses Khanna San Mateo County Times Retrieved April 5 2013 subscription required Traubman Libby Traubman Len February 17 2004 We can entrust America with Khanna s principles San Mateo County Times Retrieved April 5 2013 subscription required Rep Mike Honda digs in against potential challenger Ro Khanna Inside Bay Area February 4 2013 Retrieved April 5 2013 a b Carla Marinucci Chronicle Political Writer January 20 2012 Pete Stark may put Ro Khanna s rise on hold SFGate Retrieved January 24 2013 Molly Redden December 5 2012 Eric Swalwell Pete Stark s Young Vanquisher Gets Oriented The New Republic Tnr com Retrieved January 24 2013 Office of the California Secretary of State United States Representative in Congress retrieved January 22 2014 Richman Josh April 1 2013 Silicon Valley Congressional battle takes shape Ro Khanna to challenge Mike Honda using Obama campaign operatives San Jose Mercury News Retrieved April 5 2013 Green Joshua April 5 2013 Ro Khanna Silicon Valley s Wannabe Obama Business Week Retrieved April 5 2013 Onishi Norimitsu February 5 2014 Tech Industry Flexes Muscle in California Race The New York Times Retrieved September 2 2014 Mercury News editorial Ro Khanna should replace Mike Honda in Congress San Jose Mercury News May 3 2014 Retrieved May 21 2014 Ro Khanna offers upgrade in Congress for Silicon Valley San Francisco Chronicle May 4 2014 Retrieved May 21 2014 Oakland Tribune editorial Ro Khanna should replace Mike Honda in Congress Contra Costa Times Retrieved May 21 2014 Contra Costa Times Oakland Tribune June 2014 election recommendations from the Contra Costa Times Oakland Tribune editorial board ContraCostaTimes com Retrieved May 21 2014 Chuck Reed endorses Ro Khanna mercurynews com accessed December 1 2014 Richman Josh August 20 2014 Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce endorses Ro Khanna over Mike Honda San Jose Mercury News Retrieved December 1 2014 Indian American Vinesh Singh Rathore ousted from Congressional race IANS news biharprabha com Retrieved March 29 2014 Rucker Philip June 2 2014 In Silicon Valley tech titans try to replace a longtime Democratic congressman The Washington Post Retrieved February 16 2016 Office of the California Secretary of State Archived June 14 2016 at the Wayback Machine United States Representative in Congress retrieved June 18 2016 Office of the California Secretary of State United States Representative in Congress retrieved November 27 2016 Karerat Raif June 2 2015 Ro Khanna launches his 3rd bid to become a Congressman and unseat the dozer Mike Honda The American Bazaar Retrieved February 16 2016 Wall Street s fab five House members candidates most reliant on funding from finance industry OpenSecrets Blog June 1 2016 Retrieved June 15 2016 U S House of Representatives District 17 Districtwide Results vote sos ca gov Archived from the original on June 14 2016 Retrieved June 15 2016 Mike Honda vs Ro Khanna Rematch set in District 17 congressional race mercurynews com Retrieved June 15 2016 Geha Joseph February 23 2017 Khanna says Democrats must be more far more bold at first town hall East Bay Times retrieved February 28 2017 Ro Khanna to Justice Democrats I Endorsed Bernie Sanders Did he Lie Update NO Outrages and Interludes May 13 2017 Retrieved July 26 2018 California politics updates Gov Brown s adds cash to budget McClintock calls for independent prosecutor for Russia investigation Los Angeles Times ISSN 0458 3035 Retrieved May 15 2017 Members Congressional Progressive Caucus Archived from the original on October 22 2017 Retrieved October 12 2017 Members Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Retrieved May 17 2018 Rep Ro Khanna wins California s 17th Congressional District seat The Washington Post November 7 2018 Archived from the original on August 6 2018 Retrieved November 7 2018 November 3 2020 General Election United States Representative PDF California Secretary of State Retrieved January 9 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Ray Saswato April 20 2022 An Interview with Ro Khanna Harvard Political Review Retrieved April 21 2022 Cite error The named reference SoSPrimary was invoked but never defined see the help page Palmer Anna Sherman Jake Lippman Daniel POLITICO Playbook The Playbook Power List 19 to Watch in 2019 POLITICO Retrieved December 10 2018 Paulson Craig August 30 2015 Ritu Ahuja and Rohit Khanna The New York Times Retrieved February 16 2016 Ritu Ahuja and Rohit Khanna were married Saturday in Cleveland MORE ABOUT MONTE AHUJA business csuohio edu Cleveland State University Retrieved September 9 2022 In 1975 launched a distribution company immediately following the graduation from CSU with an MBA Through internal growth and careful strategic planning grew the company Transtar Industries into an international business as the leading U S company in the distribution of automotive transmission replacement parts to the aftermarket The business was sold in 2010 and then re acquired in 2017 Mr Ahuja is currently Chairman CEO of MURA Holdings LLC an investment company and Transtar Industries aftermarketNews Staff June 8 2017 Monte Ahuja Returns to Transtar Industries as CEO and Chairman of the Board aftermarketnews com aftermarketNews Retrieved September 9 2022 Transtar Industries Inc has announced the return of Monte Ahuja as CEO and chairman of the Board Richman Josh January 26 2015 Political Blotter Ro Khanna s new job San Jose Mercury News Retrieved February 16 2016 SUS Company Archived from the original on January 21 2016 Retrieved February 21 2016 Graves Fitzsimmons Guthrie January 27 2020 How Faith Fuels the Anti War Stances of 3 U S Reps Sojourners Ro Khanna Reflects on Gandhi s 150th Birthday Congressman Ro Khanna October 2 2019 Retrieved June 27 2020 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ro Khanna Wikiquote has quotations related to Ro Khanna Congressman Ro Khanna official U S House website Ro Khanna for Congress campaign website Appearances on C SPAN Ro Khanna at CurlieBiography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress Profile at Vote SmartU S House of RepresentativesPreceded byMike Honda Member of the U S House of Representativesfrom California s 17th congressional district2017 present IncumbentU S order of precedence ceremonial Preceded byMike Johnson United States representatives by seniority214th Succeeded byRaja Krishnamoorthi Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ro Khanna amp oldid 1131784147, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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