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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 22, 2023

I hope you would echo on a bipartisan basis that he should not be arrested for that.

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Mar 22, 2023

This is about human empathy for a family who has faced enormous grief, regardless of where you sit.

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Mar 22, 2023

We need to have some empathy. We need to have some understanding for people who have lost their child.

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Mar 9, 2023

My understanding, Dr. Horowitz, and correct me if I am mistaken, is that once we developed the precision strike capability to possibly strike the nuclear capability that China has prior to their launch that this in part incentivized them…

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Mar 8, 2023

I think there were a couple of moments in the Twitter files that really speak to a kind of larger problem.

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Mar 8, 2023

Thank you, Chairman Gallagher, and I appreciate your leadership on this committee and your bipartisan spirit in which you have conducted the hearings.

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Mar 7, 2023

It drives me crazy when Europeans are lecturing us about AI and technology.

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Mar 7, 2023

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for your leadership, for your bipartisan cooperation and collaboration on the quantum bill.

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Feb 8, 2023

The problem isn't the startups. It is often that the DOD doesn't have the budget, then, to acquire it, adopt it, actually use the technology

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Feb 8, 2023

Spending ever more money on multibillion-dollar capabilities that China can overwhelm with multimillion-dollar weapons is a losing game

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Feb 8, 2023

The respect that I have for you, both as a leading thinker on how to make the Department of Defense more innovative and how to make sure we have a modern national security strategy

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Jan 31, 2023

If anything, the Trump administration probably is more to blame for that three percent of the fraud.

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Jan 31, 2023

They are trying to imply that somehow President Biden is to blame for that, and that you would agree is just not factual, correct?

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Jan 31, 2023

I would submit that our response as a Nation to the pandemic is one of the most extraordinary responses on a bipartisan basis that this country has ever had.

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Sep 28, 2022

The right to abortion is a fundamental human right.

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Sep 28, 2022

The decision to take away women's fundamental rights, the decision to take away women's rights to choose and make decisions about their own healthcare has affected different districts across America differently.

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Sep 28, 2022

Most Americans understand what's going on. They understand that this was an ideological political decision, and they disapprove, and the Supreme Court is losing the respect of the American people at large.

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Sep 28, 2022

It's very disappointing that this Supreme Court has put ideology and politics over the rule of law to take away fundamental freedoms and rights from women across America.

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Sep 27, 2022

Two-thirds of polled Americans want to see an outright ban.

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Sep 13, 2022

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you to Chair Porter and Chair Grijalva for your leadership on this important issue.

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Sep 13, 2022

I have been working on it with Chair Maloney. We have a hearing tomorrow to go over a lot of the misinformation that Big Oil has engaged in since the 1970s.

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Sep 13, 2022

We must maintain robust domestic energy policies to allow ourselves and our allies to be energy independent.

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Aug 26, 2022

Democrats need to lean in and you know what, let`s not be anti-intellectual.

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Aug 26, 2022

Is it the whole idea that we want to make the country better, that we want people not to have the same burdens and no other nation in the world do you have to go into $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 of debt to get a college education.

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Aug 26, 2022

I don`t, because a lot of the people who take out student loans are the first generation -- in their family, first generation to go to college. A lot of them are from working class families.

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