
Ro Khanna
Democrat · CA-17 · U.S. House
CA-17 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Ro Khanna is on the ballot. Ro Khanna vs. Ritesh Tandon. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Rohit 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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.7 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 159 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 50
- Santa Clara, CA · 408-436-2720
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Ro Khanna (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
Do you vote like Khanna?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
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 · 95 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyRanking Membercenter · 24 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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth TaxesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up his opposition to a proposed tax on the state's billionaire residents on Friday by endorsing a competing ballot measure that would both cancel out the billionaire wealth tax initiative and prohibit any new taxes on the o…
Common Dreams · October 11, 2026
'We May': Trump Says US Could Soon Start Bombing Yemen Again to Help Saudi ArabiaPresident Donald Trump said Saturday that his administration could soon join Saudi Arabia's military assault on Yemen following a deadly Houthi attack on Riyadh's international airport, the latest salvo in a long-running conflict that has intensified since th…
Common Dreams · October 11, 2026
Indian-Americans back favourable candidates in US midterms electionsIndian-Americans are seeking not just a share in power in the US by getting elected as lawmakers but are also supporting others sympathetic to their cause in the November 3 midterm elections. The outgoing US House of Representatives have six members of Indian…
Business Standard · October 11, 2026
'Abolish ICE,' Say Potential 2028 Candidates AOC and Khanna After Latest Shooting in NYCTwo top progressive Democratic leaders were among those demanding an end on Friday to the 23-year-old federal agency that has provoked outrage and fear across US communities over the past 21 months under Trump administration—most recently on Thursday night, w…
Common Dreams · October 9, 2026
Recent coverage via NewsAPI, refreshed daily.