Ro Khanna

Democrat · CA-17 · U.S. House

Bio

Rohit "Ro" Khanna is an American politician and attorney 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 2016 general election, 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 2009 to 2011.

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Record of service

In office: 9.6 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 159 of 437 by time served
Age: 49

District offices

Santa Clara, CA · 408-436-2720

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.46

Healthcare

D+0.69

Immigration & Border

D+0.84

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.85

Crime & Policing

D+0.50

Defense & Veterans

D+0.41

Economy & Labor

D+0.60

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.17

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.60

Government & Democracy

D+0.80

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Ro Khanna's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

55%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Ro Khanna (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Khannasits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Seapower and Projection Forces Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation (Ranking Member)
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation
House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyRanking Membercenter · 23 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Khanna's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.