Khanna vote tracker: August 31–September 6, 2026

Ro Khanna cast 12 recorded House votes in the seven days from August 31 through September 6, 2026: 4 Yea and 8 Nay. The House held every one of those roll calls from August 31 through September 3; the Clerk’s vote index lists Roll Call 295 as the newest record. 1

The votes included two bipartisan Senate bills, a trade extension, two House rules, four policy measures, a censure, and one failed constitutional amendment. This tracker covers recorded votes on the House floor. Senate action, committee work, executive action, and court decisions sit outside the ledger.

What each group should notice

Group	Votes with the clearest connection	Reading the week
Tech workers	H.R. 1501; H.R. 4795	H.R. 1501 could affect the permitting path for domestic mining and mineral processing, which may matter to technology supply chains. H.R. 4795 could affect federally supported colleges that adopt the covered Israel boycott; neither measure creates a direct employment rule for tech workers. 2 3
Immigrants	S. 32; H.Res. 1490	S. 32 adds El Centro as a place where the Southern District of California may hold court. H.Res. 1490 calls for election-related action, but it creates no immigration benefit, enforcement rule, or voting eligibility rule. 4 5
Healthcare recipients	None	None of the 12 votes changed a health program, coverage rule, drug policy, or healthcare benefit.
California voters	S. 32; H.R. 1501; H.R. 4795	S. 32 makes El Centro an authorized court location in the Southern District of California. The mining and higher-education bills apply nationally; their practical California effects depend on future projects and institutional choices. 2 3 4
AI founders	H.R. 1501; H.R. 4795	H.R. 1501 may matter indirectly where an AI company depends on domestic mineral supply chains. H.R. 4795 may matter indirectly through university research partners. Neither measure contains an AI rule, startup-finance provision, or federal AI procurement change. 2 3

Complete vote ledger

No vote-specific statement by Khanna was located in searches of his official press-release site for these measures. The rationale field therefore records the public-statement gap rather than assigning a motive to his vote.

Date	Measure and House question	Khanna	Result	What the vote covered	House-stage status and rationale
Aug. 31	S. 307, Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act — suspend rules and pass	Yea	Passed 376–8	DOJ and the Bureau of Prisons would set and implement standards addressing sexual harassment and assault by incarcerated people against BOP staff. 6	Passed House; the Senate had already passed it. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 7
Aug. 31	S. 32, Local Access to Courts Act — suspend rules and pass	Yea	Passed 378–10	Adds College Station, Texas, and El Centro, California, as locations where specified federal district courts may hold court. 4	Passed House; the Senate had already passed it. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 8
Sep. 1	H.R. 6500, AGOA Extension Act — concur in Senate amendments	Yea	Passed 370–48	Extends African Growth and Opportunity Act trade preferences through Dec. 31, 2028, applies certain preferences retroactively, and extends specified customs-user-fee dates. 9	The House agreed to the Senate amendments. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 10
Sep. 1	H.Res. 1499 — order the previous question	Nay	Passed 212–205	A procedural vote on the rule governing floor consideration of H.R. 1501, H.R. 9436, H.Res. 1490, H.R. 4795, and debate on H.J.Res. 1. 11	Passed; it moved the rule toward adoption. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 12
Sep. 1	H.Res. 1499 — agree to the rule	Nay	Passed 210–208	The adopted rule waived points of order, set debate terms, and permitted one motion to recommit for the listed measures. 11	Agreed to in the House. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 13
Sep. 1	H.Res. 1490 — condemn and denounce socialism	Nay	Passed 220–192, 2 Present	The resolution condemns socialism, calls for enactment of the SAVE America Act, states that elections are for American citizens only, and reaffirms the Constitution. 5	Agreed to in the House. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 14
Sep. 1	H.R. 9436, Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act — motion to recommit	Yea	Failed 202–212	A procedural motion that would have sent the bill back before final passage. 15	Failed; the House then voted on passage. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 15
Sep. 1	H.R. 9436, Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026 — passage	Nay	Passed 219–196	Delays from 2028 to 2035 a deadline for new fishery-gear rules protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale from entanglement. 16	Passed House. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 17
Sep. 1	H.Res. 1498 — censure Rep. Chuck Edwards	Yea	Passed 413–2	Adopts the Ethics Committee’s July 22 report and censures Edwards, including a public reading of the censure. 18	Agreed to in the House. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 19
Sep. 2	H.J.Res. 1 — suspend rules and pass	Nay	Failed 212–206	Would propose a constitutional amendment requiring a nine-member Supreme Court: one chief justice and eight associates. 20	Failed to reach the two-thirds vote required under this procedure. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 21
Sep. 2	H.R. 1501, Protecting Domestic Mining Act — passage	Nay	Passed 218–201	Adds mining and mineral processing to projects eligible for FAST Act coverage and bars the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council from enforcing the identified proposed mining-scope rule. 2	Passed House. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 22
Sep. 3	H.R. 4795, Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2026 — passage	Nay	Passed 237–169	Bars participating colleges from a covered commercial boycott of Israel and adds Title VI certification conditions involving academic programs in Israel. 3	Passed House. Khanna rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 23

How the votes affect the five groups

S. 307: prison staff safety

Tech workers: No direct effect. The bill regulates the Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons response to misconduct against prison staff.
Immigrants: No direct effect. The bill creates no immigration status, enforcement, or detention-policy rule.
Healthcare recipients: No direct effect. The bill changes no health coverage or benefit.
California voters: No state-specific provision appears in the bill.
AI founders: No direct effect. The bill contains no technology procurement, AI, or business provision.

Khanna voted Yea as the House passed the bill. The immediate beneficiaries named by the bill are BOP employees; none of the five groups is its direct target. 6 7

S. 32: a new federal-court location in El Centro

Tech workers: No direct employment or technology rule.
Immigrants: No direct immigration rule. People with federal cases in the Southern District may have a court location in El Centro, but the bill does not alter immigration law or case eligibility.
Healthcare recipients: No direct health-program effect.
California voters: The bill directly adds El Centro to the Southern District of California’s authorized court locations. California residents and businesses using that district can assess whether that location makes federal court more accessible for them.
AI founders: No direct startup or AI rule; a founder’s relevance is the same general court-access question faced by any federal litigant in the district.

Khanna voted Yea. The House passage followed Senate passage, so this is the week’s clearest concrete California-specific change. 4 8

H.R. 6500: African trade preferences and customs fees

Tech workers: The bill contains no technology-worker provision. A company using inputs from AGOA beneficiary countries may see a trade-cost effect, depending on the product and sourcing arrangement.
Immigrants: No immigration benefit, visa rule, or enforcement provision appears in the enacted House text.
Healthcare recipients: No health benefit or coverage provision appears in the bill.
California voters: California importers and consumers may experience an indirect effect where covered goods enter their supply chains; the measure contains no California allocation or program.
AI founders: The same conditional supply-chain point applies. The text neither mentions AI nor creates a startup program.

Khanna voted Yea when the House agreed to the Senate amendments. The bill’s direct beneficiaries are eligible trade flows and importers, rather than any one of the five groups. 9 10

The rule and the socialism resolution

Khanna voted Nay twice on H.Res. 1499. The two rule votes set the path for debate and later votes; neither rule itself changed a benefit, eligibility rule, employment condition, or business requirement for tech workers, immigrants, healthcare recipients, California voters, or AI founders. 11 12 13

Khanna also voted Nay on H.Res. 1490. The House agreed to a resolution of condemnation and calls for future election-related action; the resolution itself changes no immigration status, health benefit, technology rule, California program, or AI-business rule. Its only direct consequence is the House’s expression of position. 5 14

H.R. 9436: the right-whale deadline

Khanna voted Yea on the failed motion to recommit and Nay on final passage. The passed House bill delays a deadline for new right-whale protections tied to lobster and Jonah crab fishing gear.

Tech workers and AI founders: No direct effect. The bill regulates a fishery-gear deadline, not technology employment, AI, or startup finance.
Immigrants and healthcare recipients: No direct immigration or healthcare provision.
California voters: No California-specific provision. The bill centers on Atlantic lobster and Jonah crab fisheries, so its direct regulated activity lies outside California’s named interests in this tracker.

The failed recommit motion created no separate group outcome. The later passage is the operative House action, and the bill still requires further legislative steps before it could become law. 15 16 17

Censure and the nine-justice amendment

Khanna voted Yea to censure Rep. Chuck Edwards. The resolution carries a House disciplinary consequence for Edwards; it changes no technology, immigration, health, California, or AI-founder program. 18 19

Khanna voted Nay on H.J.Res. 1, which failed. Because the joint resolution did not clear the House under the two-thirds procedure, it made no immediate legal change for tech workers, immigrants, healthcare recipients, California voters, or AI founders. 20 21

H.R. 1501: domestic mining and mineral processing

Khanna voted Nay as the House passed H.R. 1501.

Tech workers: The bill may matter indirectly to hardware and clean-technology supply chains if a mining or mineral-processing project uses the FAST Act pathway. The bill contains no worker-pay, labor, or training rule.
Immigrants: No immigration provision appears in the bill.
Healthcare recipients: No health-program provision appears in the bill.
California voters: A California mining or mineral-processing proposal could become eligible for FAST Act coverage under the bill. The practical outcome depends on a future project, its location, and its permitting record; the bill itself names no California project.
AI founders: AI companies with mineral-dependent hardware supply chains may have the same indirect interest as other technology firms. The bill creates no AI-specific permitting, funding, or procurement rule.

The House passage moves the bill forward, while its effects on any particular California project or supply chain remain conditional on later decisions. 2 22

H.R. 4795: federal-aid colleges and Israel boycotts

Khanna voted Nay as the House passed H.R. 4795.

Tech workers: The bill has no direct tech-worker rule. Its relevance is conditional for people employed by, studying at, or collaborating with an affected college.
Immigrants: The bill contains no immigration-status or visa rule. Its provisions on academic-program participation in Israel apply to covered institutions and their students and faculty, rather than to immigrants as a class.
Healthcare recipients: No healthcare benefit or coverage provision appears in the bill.
California voters: A California college that participates in federal student-aid or Title VI programs could face the bill’s conditions if it engages in the covered conduct. The record identifies no specific California institution.
AI founders: A founder working with a university research partner could have an indirect interest in the institution’s federal-funding eligibility. The bill contains no direct AI-business provision.

House passage alone has not made these conditions effective. The bill requires further legislative action before it could become law. 3 23

Bottom line

The week’s direct group-specific item is S. 32: Khanna voted Yea, and the House passed a bill that adds El Centro as a federal-court location in the Southern District of California. H.R. 1501 and H.R. 4795 passed the House over Khanna’s Nay votes and create conditional relevance for California technology supply chains and federally supported colleges. The remaining votes either focus on groups outside this tracker’s five constituencies, set House procedure, express a House position, or failed to change federal law.

References

1
House Clerk vote index
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H.R. 1501 reported text
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H.R. 4795 on Congress.gov
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S. 32 engrossed text
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H.Res. 1490 on Congress.gov
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S. 307 on Congress.gov
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Roll Call 284
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Roll Call 285
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H.R. 6500 engrossed text
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Roll Call 286
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H.Res. 1499 engrossed text
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Roll Call 287
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Roll Call 288
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Roll Call 289
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Roll Call 290
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H.R. 9436 on Congress.gov
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Roll Call 291
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H.Res. 1498 engrossed text
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Roll Call 292
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H.J.Res. 1 introduced text
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Roll Call 293
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Roll Call 294
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Roll Call 295
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