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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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Jul 29, 2026

Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are already feeling the effects of climate change and the health consequences that often follow.

markey.senate.gov
Jul 27, 2026

Running chatGPT bland centrists is not the answer.

axios.com
Jul 27, 2026

Anti establishment and anti status quo candidates give us the best shot in the midterms at a time when Americans view our politics as corrupt and our system as unfair.

axios.com
Jul 26, 2026

This is about accountability.

dawn.com
Jul 26, 2026

He’s not a law-and-order president, and he doesn’t really care about human rights or international law.

dawn.com
Jul 26, 2026

If someone comes to our jurisdiction, [the president] should order the marshals to arrest them.

dawn.com
Jul 26, 2026

America needs to cooperate with the ICC.

dawn.com
Jul 26, 2026

You can’t just kill women and children, have an ICC arrest warrant, and then walk into the United States of America and think nothing is going to happen to you.

huffpost.com
Jul 26, 2026

If the ICC has an arrest warrant for someone, they should be arrested by America if they come into American jurisdiction.

huffpost.com
Jul 26, 2026

It’s embarrassing to the United States and to the world community.

huffpost.com
Jul 26, 2026

The American president should arrest Netanyahu or Putin in accordance with international law. Full stop.

huffpost.com
Jul 26, 2026

I’m not for abolishing the Senate, I’m for abolishing the filibuster.

washingtonexaminer.com
Jul 23, 2026

We need to now fight to strip this amendment in the conference between the House and the Senate.

commondreams.org
Jul 23, 2026

We need to be developing not just New York and Silicon Valley and Austin – we need to be developing industry in the midwest, in the south-west, in the south, and I believe an industrial investment bank is a concrete step towards that.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

We have a country right now where all the capital is going to build AI, technology apps and financial firms, but we need capital also for our small and medium-sized businesses, for our manufacturers.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

We need what I call the ‘modern Marshall plan for America’.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

It would be an effort to re-industrialize the country.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

This is one of the boldest industrialization proposals since FDR’s industrialization efforts, and it’s in the tradition of Hamilton’s efforts.

theguardian.com
Jul 17, 2026

I oppose selling weapons to Israel that are used to kill Palestinians or sending aid that furthers this status quo.

realclearpolitics.com
Jul 17, 2026

Rep. Massie and I introduced our bill to release the Epstein files nearly a year ago. Since then, the DOJ has violated our law, delayed the release of millions of files, botched the redactions, and denied the survivors justice.

lujan.senate.gov
Jul 16, 2026

I cannot vote for aid to a country that committed genocide and has used tax dollars to detain Americans like me.

commondreams.org
Jul 14, 2026

They're going to lose all aid, and we're going to stop military sales. Massie Amendment is a vote on ending aid. It may not pass now, but it certainly will pass in the next administration.

npr.org
Jul 14, 2026

The Israelis lie, that this government that lied about genocide has no problem lying about the detention of Americans, that there is an arrogance of power and that they're totally out of touch with the fact that Americans under 50 have…

npr.org
Jul 13, 2026

The Israeli government is lying to cover up for 4 IDF soldiers who aided violent settlers.

theguardian.com

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