Khanna vote tracker: no House votes October 19–25, and the bill he last voted on is now law
Ro Khanna cast no House votes from October 19 to 25, 2026 — the fifth straight vote-free week — and the retirement-plan bill behind his last recorded vote became law while twelve more bills were signed.
The last vote Ro Khanna cast on the House floor was on September 16. Between October 19 and October 25, 2026, the House held zero roll calls — the fifth 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. This week the substance came from the signing desk and the White House, and one item corrects the record from last Monday.
The Senate is out too, and its first vote has a date
The Senate sat twice in the window, on October 19 and October 22, both pro forma sessions at which no business was conducted.4 Further pro forma sessions follow on October 26, October 29, November 2 and November 5, also without business.5
The Senate 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, the Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act, the vehicle carrying the permitting-reform bill.5
That 5:30 p.m. vote is the first moment anything held up in the Senate can move, and it lands six days after the election.
The last bill Khanna voted on is now law
Roll Call 314 was the House's vote on S. 2403, the Retire through Ownership Act, taken under suspension of the rules on September 16. It passed 401–14 and Khanna voted Yea.2
The President signed it on October 15, and the Government Publishing Office has published it as Public Law 119-124.67
What the law changes is the standard a retirement plan's trustee uses to value private company stock. ERISA requires employee stock ownership plans to pay no more than adequate consideration. The new law lets a plan fiduciary rely in good faith on a valuation from an independent valuation expert who applied the principles and methodologies of Internal Revenue Service Revenue Ruling 59-60. The change applies to valuations made on or after October 15.6
Last week's edition reported that nothing had become law in its window and that Public Law 119-121 was the newest. The signing record for October 15 lists three bills, and the public-law volumes have since caught up with it: 119-122 from S. 240, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act; 119-123 from S. 283, the Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act; and 119-124.789
So the House's final recorded vote of this Congress so far produced a law, and Khanna was on the winning side of it by a margin of 387 votes.
Twelve more bills signed, and what is in them
The President signed ten bills on October 20 and two more on October 22.1011 None of the twelve appears on the September roll-call list this tracker covers, so none of them carries a Khanna vote to report.
Five of the twelve reach a tracked group:
- H.R. 952, the Reversionary Interest Conveyance Act, directs the Interior Department to convey the federal reversionary interest in land in Sacramento, California.11
- H.R. 7022, the Mystic Alerts Act, requires the Federal Communications Commission to set whatever rules are needed so commercial mobile carriers can transmit emergency alerts by satellite.11
- H.R. 1721, the Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act, has Commerce study the cost and feasibility of making in the United States any high-demand product now imported because of a supply-chain constraint.10
- H.R. 2481, the Romance Scam Prevention Act, requires online dating services to tell a member when they have been messaged by someone the service banned for fraud.10
- H.R. 4307, the Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act, trains Labor Department employees to spot human trafficking and help law enforcement.10
The other seven cover a clergy Social Security election, land conveyances in Arizona, Washington, Alaska and Mississippi, a park redesignation in Arizona, and a two-year extension of Interior's authority to collect oil and gas permit processing fees under H.R. 7831, the License to Drill Act.10
Four executive actions, and which ones reach you
Women's health, October 19. Executive Order 14437 creates a Women's Health Division inside the National Institutes of Health, to be set up within 90 days, and a White House Women's Health Task Force co-chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the White House chief of staff. It sets research priorities across cardiovascular disease, cancer, autoimmune conditions, endometriosis, infertility, maternal health, menopause and aging. The order also revokes a 2024 executive order and a 2023 memorandum on the same subject and replaces them.12
Housing costs, October 22. A housing executive order directs the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start, if he judges it in the companies' and the public's interest, a pilot that reviews mortgages the two companies hold and cancels mortgage insurance automatically once a borrower's equity has risen enough to qualify. The same order expands a title-insurance waiver pilot into a nationwide program for refinances. It sets up a task force on manufactured housing with recommendations due in 180 days. It also directs the Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments to cut the interest rates on the home loans they make directly.13
The order's stated policy includes "innovative risk and value assessment technologies that incorporate Super Intelligence" to drive down mortgage costs, which puts federal housing finance behind automated valuation and underwriting.13
Wind turbines, October 22. A section 232 proclamation accepts the Commerce Department's finding that imported wind turbines and their components threaten national security, citing inverter cybersecurity and radar interference. It orders the Commerce secretary and the Trade Representative to negotiate agreements with trading partners and to report back within 180 days. It leaves the existing steel, aluminium and copper duties on components in place.14
Petroleum capacity, October 22. A Defense Production Act determination finds domestic petroleum production, refining, pipelines, storage and marine terminals essential to national defense, and waives the act's procedural requirements so the government can make purchases and financial commitments to expand them.15
What each group should take from the week
| Group | What changed this week | What is still waiting, and when it can move |
|---|---|---|
| Tech workers | H.R. 7022 puts satellite delivery of emergency alerts into the FCC's rulemaking queue.11 Borrowers with Fannie or Freddie loans gain an automatic route to cancel mortgage insurance.13 | Permitting reform is the first vote on the Senate calendar, at 5:30 p.m. on November 9.5 The House returns the same day.3 |
| Immigrants | Nothing on status, visas or work authorization. H.R. 4307 adds trafficking-detection training for Labor Department staff.10 | The Senate's first vote back, on November 9, is on permitting reform, which leaves immigration untouched. The funding law expires December 11.16 |
| Healthcare recipients | Executive Order 14437 organizes women's health research at NIH and revokes the two earlier women's health directives.12 Coverage and payment rules are unchanged. | Certain veterans' health care extenders expire December 11 without new legislation.16 |
| California voters | H.R. 952 conveys the federal reversionary interest in Sacramento land.11 Mortgage insurance on Fannie- and Freddie-backed loans can be cancelled automatically as equity rises, and refinance title rules loosen nationwide.13 | The two California vessel clean-air resolutions the House passed in September wait in a Senate that conducts no business until November 9.5 |
| AI founders | The housing order names Super Intelligence-based risk and value assessment as federal mortgage policy.13 The wind proclamation opens 180 days of negotiation over grid equipment imports.14 | Permitting reform, which governs how fast the transmission lines behind data centers get built, is the first vote back on November 9.5 The Ratepayer Protection Act stays dead after failing 57–43 in September.17 |
Khanna off the floor
Khanna spent the week on a letter and a campaign trail.
Jewish Insider reported on October 23 that Khanna was circulating a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, asking them to strip the U.S.-Israel defense cooperation provisions from the 2027 defense authorization bill while the two chambers reconcile their versions. The letter had at least 30 Democratic signatories and stays open for signatures through November 6. It argues the provisions would embed Israeli technology in American acquisition programs and co-production lines, and asks for annual reauthorization, human rights conditions and a counterintelligence certification if they survive.18
On October 24 he campaigned in Omaha for Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, on a panel with former Republican congressman Joe Walsh and former Republican National Committee chairman Marc Racicot. Khanna told the audience he was tired of a Democratic Party that had "thrown the trans community under the bus," and said Osborn would support the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.19
The Washington Post published a profile of him the same week under the headline "Ro Khanna, eyeing the White House, tries to sell capitalism to the left."20
His congressional press page has published nothing since October 1, and the China committee's ranking-member page nothing since October 9.2122 The NDAA letter and the Nebraska trip reached the public through reporting and the campaign, with no statement on either from his office.
The forward calendar
- November 3: the midterm elections.
- November 6: Khanna's NDAA letter closes for signatures.18
- November 9: the House returns for its first votes since September 16, and the Senate votes at about 5:30 p.m. on whether to take up the permitting-reform vehicle.35
- December 11: government funding expires, along with certain veterans' health care extenders, farm bill provisions and the surface transportation authorization.16
The bottom line
Khanna has nothing to vote on until November 9. The week's decisions were made by signature: the retirement bill he last voted for became law, twelve others were signed, and four executive actions set housing, women's health, wind imports and petroleum policy.
For readers in the five groups, the concrete gains this week are narrow — a mortgage insurance cancellation route, a satellite alert rule in the pipeline, a Sacramento land conveyance. The larger items, permitting reform and the December funding deadline, are still ahead. The date to circle first is November 9, when the Senate's 5:30 p.m. vote shows whether the permitting bill has a path.
References
- 1House Clerk vote index
clerk.house.gov
- 2Roll Call 314
clerk.house.gov
- 3House Press Gallery vote schedule
pressgallery.house.gov
- 4U.S. Senate Daily Press, October 19, 2026
dailypress.senate.gov
- 5U.S. Senate Daily Press, October 22, 2026
dailypress.senate.gov
- 6Public Law 119-124
govinfo.gov
- 7White House signing list, October 15, 2026
whitehouse.gov
- 8Public Law 119-122
govinfo.gov
- 9Public Law 119-123
govinfo.gov
- 10White House signing list, October 20, 2026
whitehouse.gov
- 11White House signing list, October 22, 2026
whitehouse.gov
- 12Executive Order 14437
whitehouse.gov
- 13Executive order on housing costs
whitehouse.gov
- 14Proclamation on wind turbine imports
whitehouse.gov
- 15Presidential determination on petroleum capacity
whitehouse.gov
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- 17Senate Roll Call 254
senate.gov
- 18Jewish Insider, October 23, 2026
jewishinsider.com
- 19Nebraska Examiner, October 25, 2026
nebraskaexaminer.com
- 20The Washington Post, October 23, 2026
washingtonpost.com
- 21Rep. Khanna press releases
khanna.house.gov
- 22Select Committee on the CCP press releases
democrats.selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
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