Khanna vote tracker: no House votes October 12–18, and the Russia sanctions law he opposed was waived
Ro Khanna cast no House votes from October 12 to 18, 2026 — the fourth straight vote-free week — and the Russia and Iran sanctions law he voted against had every duty waived two days before those duties were due to start.
The last vote Ro Khanna cast on the House floor was on September 16. The chamber has added nothing to that record since.
Between October 12 and October 18, 2026, the House held zero roll calls — the fourth consecutive week without one. The newest entry is still Roll Call 314, a retirement-plan valuation bill called the Retire through Ownership Act, which passed 401–14.12
The House is in a district work period. Its next votes are expected Monday, November 9, six days after the midterm elections.3
This tracker counts recorded House votes. Senate votes, committee work and off-floor activity sit outside that count, and this issue reports them where they touch a tracked group.
The Senate is out too
The Senate's newest recorded vote is Roll Call 256, taken on September 30, and no roll call has followed it.45
The chamber is meeting in pro forma sessions, the brief gavel-in, gavel-out sittings that carry no business. It convened that way on October 19 and is next scheduled for October 22.6
Neither floor produced a gain or a loss for any of the five tracked groups this week. One thing off the floor did move.
The one September vote that came back this week
On September 16, the House voted to concur in the Senate's amendments to H.R. 5334, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act. It passed 262–159, and Khanna voted Nay.7 The President signed it on September 18 as Public Law 119-111.8
On October 16, the President signed an executive order that set the law's penalties and cancelled them in the same document.8
The order sets three duty increases. Goods from Russia would face 500 percent. Goods from the five largest buyers of Russian crude oil and natural gas would face 100 percent, charged when a country makes new purchases on or after October 18.
A third duty of 100 percent would fall on goods from the five largest facilitators of Russian sanctions evasion.8
Section 4 of the same order waives every one of those duties, using the waiver authority the law grants in section 115. It also waives the law's sanctions and restrictions, apart from sanctions that already existed under earlier executive orders.
The waivers stay in place until the President, the Secretary of State, the Treasury Secretary or the Trade Representative decides that further action is warranted.8
So the law is on the books with no operative effect. The order names none of the countries it targets and assigns the Trade Representative to monitor them and report back.8
What the waiver holds back, group by group:
- California voters: A 100 percent duty is a tax collected at the border, and importers pass much of that cost into wholesale and retail prices. India, among the largest buyers of Russian crude, is one of the countries such a duty would have covered.9 With the waiver signed, none of that price pressure is in force.
- AI founders and tech workers: The same duty would have raised the landed cost of imported hardware and components from whichever five countries were named. Its crude-oil provisions also reached the fuel that sets natural gas and wholesale power prices, which is the input a data center buys. Both costs sit where they were this week.8
- Immigrants: The waived sections impose sanctions on foreign persons and duties on goods. None of them touches immigration status, visas or work authorization.8
- Healthcare recipients: Nothing in the order or in the waived sections touches coverage, reimbursement or drug prices.8
The waiver drew objections from both parties. Senator John Cornyn of Texas shared a news report on the order with the comment "Lindsey would be appalled." California Democrat Ami Bera said Republicans who pushed the bill should be "standing up and screaming at the top of their lungs."9
Khanna has published no statement on the waiver. His congressional press page and the China committee's page, where his ranking-member statements appear, both stopped at earlier items — the committee's at October 9, his own at October 1.1011
So the public record holds his Nay vote and no explanation for it.
Nothing else became law
Through this issue, the newest public law on the Government Publishing Office's record is 119-121, from S. 195, signed October 9. No later enactment has been published.12
The rest of the September slate sits where it sat seven days ago: in a Senate that has held no business since September 30.6 H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, stays dead after its cloture vote failed 57–43.1313
The tour that filled the week
Khanna spent October 12 to 15 on the Southern tour his China committee announced on October 9. He met manufacturing workers and local officials about competition with China.14
The tour stopped at Meridian Specialty Yarn Group in North Carolina and Parkdale Mills in Georgia. Executives there held roundtables on textile technology and on the difficulties the industry faces.15
In rural Georgia, Khanna focused on tariffs and higher production costs, Reuters reported.16
The announcement said he would highlight the region's high-purity quartz, the mineral used in semiconductor manufacturing. It also named furniture and textile production and workforce training.14
For tech workers and AI founders, that quartz reference is the trip's one direct line to chipmaking. The trip produced no legislation. For California voters, it was their representative's week, and it changed no vote. For immigrants and healthcare recipients, the trip has no direct connection.
What it means for each group
Nothing on either floor moved a group's position this week. The table gives each group its standing question: what is waiting, and when it can move.3
| Group | What changed this week | What is still waiting, and when it can move |
|---|---|---|
| Tech workers | Nothing on the floor. The waiver means no 100 percent duty applies to goods from whichever five countries the order targets.8 | The September slate waits in the Senate, and the House votes again November 9.3 |
| Immigrants | Nothing. The waived sections cover sanctions on foreign persons and duties on goods.8 | The same Senate slate, then November 9 in the House.3 |
| Healthcare recipients | Nothing. No provision this week touched coverage, reimbursement or drug prices.17 | On December 11 the funding law expires, and with it certain veterans' health care extenders.17 |
| California voters | Nothing on the floor. The duty that would have reached import prices is waived.8 | The surface transportation authorization expires December 11, and the September bills still sit in the Senate.17 |
| AI founders | Nothing. Power and hardware costs sit where the waiver left them.8 | The Ratepayer Protection Act is dead on a 57–43 Senate vote, and the September slate waits for November 9.13 |
The forward calendar
- October 22: the Senate's next pro forma session, with no votes scheduled.6
- November 3: the midterm elections.
- November 9: the House returns, making its first votes since September 16 possible.3
- December 11: government funding expires, along with certain veterans' health care extenders, farm bill provisions and the surface transportation authorization.17
The bottom line
Khanna has nothing to vote on until November 9. The month's one substantive shift ran against his September Nay: the Russia and Iran sanctions law took effect and was stripped of its duties and sanctions two days before those duties were written to start. For readers in any of the five groups, costs and rules stayed exactly where they were. The waiver can be lifted at any time, which makes the December 11 funding deadline the next date worth circling.
References
- 1House Clerk vote index
clerk.house.gov
- 2Roll Call 314
clerk.house.gov
- 3House Press Gallery vote schedule
pressgallery.house.gov
- 4Senate roll-call menu, 119th Congress
senate.gov
- 5Senate Roll Call 256
senate.gov
- 6Senate floor proceedings
senate.gov
- 7Roll Call 308
clerk.house.gov
- 8Executive order of October 16, 2026
whitehouse.gov
- 9IANS via AP7AM, October 18, 2026
ap7am.com
- 10Rep. Khanna press releases
khanna.house.gov
- 11Select Committee on the CCP press releases
democrats-selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
- 12Public Law 119-121
govinfo.gov
- 13Senate Roll Call 254
senate.gov
- 14Select Committee on the CCP, October 9, 2026
democrats-selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
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