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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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Sep 28, 2021

I hope you will take that into consideration.

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Sep 28, 2021

I think our military cares more about the loss of civilian life than any military in the world, any superpower ever in history.

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Sep 27, 2021

I can't predict the actions of Senator Sinema and if this deal goes down, it will be on her shoulders.

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Sep 27, 2021

Why is it that one senator should have this much power? I mean, you know, we're in a democracy, where one senator is holding things up and the Senate parliamentarian it's absurd, really, to be this dysfunctional as a system.

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Sep 27, 2021

It's important for people to realize this. This is not progressives versus moderates. This is the entire Democratic Party and Joe Biden versus Kyrsten Sinema.

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Sep 27, 2021

It means giving affordable childcare to everyone watching. It means seniors are finally going to get dental and hearing aids covered. It means that if you're sick, you're going to get paid leave.

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Sep 27, 2021

The President has already won me over I'm on his side as by the way is 99% of the Democratic Party. We want to deliver on his message for the working and middle class.

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Sep 17, 2021

The reason they’ve gotten away with this is because, frankly, Democrats haven’t controlled Congress that much over the last 20 some years.

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Sep 17, 2021

They can’t lie to their board of directors, they can’t lie to their customers.

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Sep 17, 2021

We want to have big oil hearings, like Waxman had the big tobacco hearings.

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Sep 17, 2021

They’re very active. I mean, the clean energy standard, in my view, is the most important part about the reconciliation bill.

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Aug 10, 2021

Disclosure laws, I think every elected official, for example, should have to disclose any foreign payments that you're receiving while in office.

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Aug 10, 2021

It did take too long, Anderson, because our system wasn't designed for someone like Donald Trump.

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Aug 10, 2021

And that's why we need his tax returns. Perfectly reasonable. If a member of Congress was receiving foreign payments, I think the American public would want to know.

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Aug 5, 2021

The really scary part, Chris, is what if Republicans do this again in the future and try to defer to state legislatures to elect a Republican candidate even if the Democrat wins overwhelmingly the popular vote in those states.

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Aug 5, 2021

There was a plan. And the reason it matters to look backwards is because they could try to use this plan in the future.

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Aug 5, 2021

That is the smoking gun. It’s unnerving how close Trump came to using the full weight of the Justice Department to overturn the election result.

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Jul 22, 2021

We need to beef up the technological competency of our regulatory agency.

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Jul 22, 2021

They haven`t done it, and it`s because there are a lot of special interests that are involved.

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Jul 22, 2021

There is... meaningful legislation that can tackle this.

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Jul 22, 2021

We know what we need to do, it`s just that Congress frankly hasn`t acted.

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Jul 20, 2021

I share the view that we need to win on China, but China is actually marching ahead on a lot of these technologies.

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Jul 20, 2021

It's about making sure that we finally have new manufacturing jobs in communities that have been left behind.

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Jul 20, 2021

President Biden wants to close that gap. He wants to say that it is not fair that people in rural America may have flooding or breathe air that is not as clean.

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Jul 20, 2021

Thank you for your incredible leadership with the climate crisis. There is no one in Congress who cares more about the climate crisis than you.

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