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Ro Khanna

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Ro Khanna is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Khanna has focused on issues such as technology, economic justice, and transparency in government. He has been an advocate for progressive policies, including tax reform aimed at wealth inequality and increased accountability for corporations.

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Mar 21, 2024

Art Ellison has one final wish: to provide free lunch to students in need. Art, a Democrat from the New Hampshire State House, is currently in hospice and knows he doesn't have long to live. He is using his final time to try and pass a…

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Mar 20, 2024

We are not doing anything, and when that happens, it seems to me the President has an obligation to address an urgent and imminent subject like AI.

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Mar 20, 2024

We are supposed to be the predominant arbiter of government.

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Mar 20, 2024

We are going backward, we are not going forwards.

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Mar 19, 2024

So, my understanding is you have the Trump Campaign telling you to talk to a Russian oligarch to get dirt on the President of the United States for political reasons.

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Mar 12, 2024

As a Representative of Silicon Valley, I remember that it was our mission to the Moon that led to the acquisition of semiconductors, and that is what spawned Silicon Valley.

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Mar 6, 2024

I'm worried and I'm particularly worried because we've lost our -- not just potentially Russia, but to China and American interests in Africa had been compromised.

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Mar 6, 2024

I mean, we have always stood up for democracy, for freedom. Here you have Putin, Russia evading Ukraine, killing civilians, and the war will not succeed for Ukraine if we don't provide aid.

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Mar 6, 2024

I don't think anyone it should be allowed to just punt a trial, a criminal trial because they're running for office.

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Mar 6, 2024

We're doing more than our part. We're simply asking that the United States step up and this is a risk to not just Ukrainians, that's a risk to the Baltics.

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Mar 5, 2024

It is time that we have a real solution for having high-skilled immigrants help with our national security. That is why I, as a cosponsor of the EAGLE Act, am going to introduce it and attach it to the National Defense Authorization Act…

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Feb 5, 2024

For patients with leukemia, doctors often prescribe Imbruvica. In 2021, Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie sold it for a combined $10 billion. Keytruda, a drug prescribed to cancer patients, netted Merck $20 billion; and Humira, a prescription…

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Jan 16, 2024

I just want people to know what happens if you come into power. You have been pretty candid about it.

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Jan 16, 2024

I agree with a far more need for technology education starting very, very early on.

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Jan 16, 2024

One of our big challenges in the digital revolution, combined with the AI revolution, is how we avoid the growing disparity in income.

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Jan 11, 2024

With all due respect, the president is wrong, and the president is no longer doing what he campaigned on in 2020.

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Jan 11, 2024

Well, Erin, first of all, the White House made a big mistake by spending a month talking to the Australians, the British, the Canadians, the only people they didn't talk to were members of Congress, which is required by Article One in the…

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Dec 12, 2023

If they want to make this a case of a campaign, fine. Everything President Biden has done since kindergarten can be litigated in a campaign. And they've been doing this for the past five years. But you can't impeach a sitting president of…

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Dec 12, 2023

There's no evidence or allegation that the president has done anything even slightly wrong in his role as president.

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Dec 12, 2023

It's a total distraction. I think it's going to backfire on the Republicans.

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Dec 5, 2023

As a Representative from Silicon Valley, I can attest that the most disruptive innovations of the past 50 years have come from the Department of Defense.

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Dec 5, 2023

I guess the paradox for me is that when it comes to spawning disruptive innovation the military has been way ahead of the commercial sector.

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Dec 5, 2023

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am curious about how we think about the innovation of DARPA versus innovation in battle.

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Oct 31, 2023

I'm where Bernie Sanders is. And I'm where many -- Jamie Raskin is, and that is in a humanitarian pause, that we need to have Israel's right to defend itself.

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Oct 31, 2023

When you have this kind of inflammatory rhetoric, especially for someone who's running for president and in the top five, it puts all of us at risk.

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