Khanna vote tracker: no House votes October 26–November 1, and a 180-day clock starts on imported robots and factory machinery
Ro Khanna cast no House votes from October 26 to November 1, 2026 — the sixth vote-free week in a row — while a presidential proclamation opened a 180-day negotiation over imports of robots and industrial machinery.
The last vote Ro Khanna cast on the House floor came on September 16. The House held zero roll calls between October 26 and November 1, 2026 — the sixth straight week without one.1
The newest entry on the Clerk's list is still Roll Call 314, the Retire through Ownership Act, which passed 401–14 on September 16.2
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 week still produced one federal decision that reaches robot builders, AI hardware and anyone who buys industrial equipment. It came from the White House rather than the floor.
A 180-day clock starts on imported robots
On October 28 the President signed a proclamation under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. It accepted the Commerce Department's finding that imports of robotics, industrial machinery and their parts threaten national security.4
The operative step is negotiation. The Commerce secretary and the Trade Representative must pursue agreements with trading partners and report back within 180 days.4
Tariffs, duties, quotas and fees stay available as later remedies. So does "a program to incentivize new investment in United States production of robotics and industrial machinery."4
Six months from October 28 is April 26, 2027. Until then, the price of an imported robot arm is the price it is today.
The finding gives the size of what is at stake. The country shipped about $7.1 trillion of manufactured goods in 2024 and produced roughly $86 billion of equipment that year.4
Commerce also concluded that the United States makes less robotics and industrial equipment than it uses, and relies on imports for most types.5
The text names autonomous robots, humanoid and quadruped robots and autonomous ground vehicles as defense-relevant, along with the machinery that builds missiles, aircraft and ships.4
Who the robot finding reaches
AI founders. If you build humanoid or autonomous hardware, the exposure is your bill of materials. Parts and components sit inside the finding, so a duty would land on the cost of every unit you assemble here.
Which way it goes depends on the talks. Duties raise your landed cost. An investment incentive lowers the cost of assembling here. The proclamation names both outcomes and commits to neither.4
Tech workers. If your job is deploying robots in warehouses and factories, a duty raises the price of the equipment a project needs, and expensive equipment pushes deployments back. An incentive that brings assembly onshore creates factory work in the same industry. The talks decide which one arrives.
California voters. The proclamation names no state. Its reach runs through the industries it lists as buyers of this machinery — motor vehicles, electronics, medical devices, metal fabrication, construction equipment, aircraft — and through the ports that receive the imports.4
Healthcare recipients. Medical devices appear once, as an end use of the machinery under review. The proclamation changes no coverage rule, no payment rate and no drug price.
Immigrants. Immigration status, visas and work authorization: no change in the proclamation.
The twelve October bills now carry public law numbers
The Government Publishing Office has numbered the twelve bills signed on October 20 and 22. The block runs from Public Law 119-125, the Clergy Act, to Public Law 119-136, the Mystic Alerts Act.67 The numbers follow the order of signature.8
The newest public law is 119-136, enacted October 22. This window added nothing to the statute book.
Five of the twelve touch a tracked group, and each now has a number you can look up:
- H.R. 952, the Reversionary Interest Conveyance Act, is Public Law 119-135. It conveys the federal reversionary interest in land in Sacramento, California.9
- H.R. 7022, the Mystic Alerts Act, is Public Law 119-136. It provides for emergency alerts by satellite.7
- H.R. 1721, the Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act, is Public Law 119-127. It directs Commerce to study making high-demand imported products in the United States.10
- H.R. 2481, the Romance Scam Prevention Act, is Public Law 119-129. It requires dating services to notify members who were messaged by a banned user.11
- H.R. 4307, the Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act, is Public Law 119-131. It trains Labor Department staff to detect trafficking and assist law enforcement.12
The other seven are land conveyances in Arizona, Washington, Alaska and Mississippi, a park redesignation in Arizona, a clergy Social Security election, and a two-year extension of Interior's oil and gas permit processing fee.13
The Senate is still out, and its first vote has a date
The Senate scheduled pro forma sessions for October 26 and October 29, and does the same on November 2 and November 5.14 None of them conducts business.
It returns Monday, November 9 at 3:00 p.m. and votes at about 5:30 p.m. on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 2347.15
H.R. 2347 is the Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act, which would keep damages received for a sexual act or sexual contact out of taxable income. The House passed it by voice vote on April 27, 2026, so the House record carries no Khanna vote on it.16
The Senate is using the bill as the vehicle for the permitting-reform deal.15 If the Senate amends it, the bill comes back to the House, and that vote would be Khanna's first recorded one since September 16.
Khanna off the floor
His press page published something for the first time since October 1.17
On October 29 Khanna and Representatives Lois Frankel, Greg Landsman and Brian Fitzpatrick reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act.18
The bill would require colleges to post campus safety policies, annual security reports, complaint instructions and counts of sexual misconduct allegations on their websites.18
It would place a confidential specialist for sexual and interpersonal violence on each campus, trained with Education Department material. It would also protect students who report in good faith from punishment for drug or alcohol use the report reveals.18
It would extend the VAWA campus grant program to sexual harassment and order a study of those grants within two years.18
The bill is a proposal, with no scheduled vote. The House casts none before November 9.
On October 30 he endorsed three candidates running against sitting California Democrats: Angela Gonzales-Torres against Jimmy Gomez, Eric Jones against Mike Thompson, and Mai Vang against Doris Matsui.19
All three incumbents are in Democrat-versus-Democrat general elections that finish on November 3. Khanna had endorsed Thompson earlier in this cycle.19
On Sunday he told Fox News he would stop funding for further military action in Iran and tied the war to fuel prices.20 The war has run more than eight months and cost $47 billion and the lives of 21 service members as of October, The Hill reported.
The China committee's ranking-member page has published nothing since October 9.21
What each group should take from the week
| Group | What changed this week | What is still waiting, and when it can move |
|---|---|---|
| Tech workers | The robot and industrial-machinery finding covers parts and components and starts 180 days of negotiation. No duty is in force.4 | Permitting reform gets its first Senate vote at 5:30 p.m. on November 9, the same day the House returns.15 |
| Immigrants | Immigration status, visas and work authorization: no change in the week's actions. | Khanna's letter on the 2027 defense bill closes for signatures November 6.22 The funding law expires December 11.23 |
| Healthcare recipients | Medical devices are named only as a buyer of the machinery under review. Coverage and payment rules are unchanged. | Veterans' health care extenders lapse December 11, and the Medicare physician payment increase lapses December 31.23 |
| California voters | Khanna endorsed challengers to three California Democratic incumbents on October 30; those races finish November 3.19 Public Law 119-135 conveys the Sacramento land.9 | The two California vessel clean-air resolutions passed in September and wait in a Senate that conducts no business until November 9. |
| AI founders | The robot finding sets a clock to April 26, 2027 and names a domestic investment incentive as one possible remedy.4 | The November 9 permitting vote governs how fast the transmission lines behind data centers get built.15 |
The forward calendar
- November 3: the midterm elections.
- November 6: Khanna's letter on the 2027 defense bill closes for signatures.22
- November 9: the House takes its first votes since September 16, and the Senate votes at about 5:30 p.m. on whether to take up the permitting vehicle.315
- December 11: government funding expires, along with certain veterans' health care extenders, farm bill provisions and the surface transportation authorization.23
- December 31: the Medicare physician payment increase and the Export-Import Bank authorization expire.23
- January 3, 2027: the 119th Congress ends at noon, whether or not the year's bills have passed.24
The bottom line
Khanna has nothing to vote on until November 9. The week's federal action was executive, and it set a clock rather than a tariff.
No price changed this week for readers in any of the five groups. The dates that carry consequences are November 9, when the House votes for the first time in nearly eight weeks and the Senate tests permitting reform, and December 11, when funding runs out.
References
- 1House Clerk vote index
clerk.house.gov
- 2Roll Call 314
clerk.house.gov
- 3House Press Gallery vote schedule
pressgallery.house.gov
- 4
- 5Fact sheet on the robotics proclamation
whitehouse.gov
- 6Public Law 119-125
govinfo.gov
- 7Public Law 119-136
govinfo.gov
- 8White House signing list, October 20, 2026
whitehouse.gov
- 9Public Law 119-135
govinfo.gov
- 10Public Law 119-127
govinfo.gov
- 11Public Law 119-129
govinfo.gov
- 12Public Law 119-131
govinfo.gov
- 13White House signing list, October 22, 2026
whitehouse.gov
- 14Senate schedule for pro forma sessions
democrats.senate.gov
- 15U.S. Senate Daily Press, November 2, 2026
dailypress.senate.gov
- 16Congress.gov, H.R. 2347
congress.gov
- 17Rep. Khanna press releases
khanna.house.gov
- 18Khanna release, October 29, 2026
khanna.house.gov
- 19Axios, October 30, 2026
axios.com
- 20The Hill
thehill.com
- 21Select Committee on the CCP press releases
democrats-selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
- 22Jewish Insider, October 23, 2026
jewishinsider.com
- 23
- 24Federal News Network, October 26, 2026
federalnewsnetwork.com
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