Khanna vote tracker: 19 votes, September 14–20, 2026
Ro Khanna cast 19 House votes from September 14–20, 2026 — 11 Yea and 8 Nay — including two resolutions that would cancel California's vessel-emission rules and a bill that makes large computing campuses pay for their own grid upgrades.
Ro Khanna cast 19 recorded House votes in the seven days from September 14 through September 20, 2026: 11 Yea and 8 Nay. The House held every one of those roll calls on September 14, 15 and 16. The Clerk's vote index lists Roll Call 314 as its newest record, the roll-call record dates that vote September 16, and no further roll call was posted through September 20. 12
All 19 votes passed. Ten of them were suspension measures that cleared the two-thirds threshold, and four turned on margins of six votes or fewer. Khanna's eight Nay votes all fell on the losing side: the two resolutions that would cancel California's vessel-emission rules, the fraud-enforcement bills, the Russia and Iran sanctions act, the rule that brought those measures to the floor, and the motion to table an impeachment resolution.
This tracker counts recorded votes cast on the House floor. Senate action, committee work, executive orders and court decisions sit outside the count.
What each group should notice
| Group | This week's votes that touch it | What the record means |
|---|---|---|
| Tech workers | H.R. 9340; H.R. 8278; S. 2403 | H.R. 9340 sets who pays for the grid upgrades that data centers need. H.R. 8278 asks financial regulators to assess whether their own technology can keep up with the firms they supervise. S. 2403 concerns how employee stock ownership plans value closely held stock. 345 |
| Immigrants | H.Res. 1486; H.R. 5334; H.R. 10326 | The tabled impeachment resolution was about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection operate. The sanctions act makes the foreign nationals it names inadmissible and revokes their visas. The PROOF Act governs what state Medicaid, SNAP and TANF agencies hand to the Justice Department for fraud cases. None of the three changes an eligibility rule or a benefit. 678 |
| Healthcare recipients | H.R. 10326; H.J.Res. 210; H.J.Res. 213; H.R. 2140 | Medicaid is one of the programs named in the PROOF Act, which is about fraud investigations rather than coverage. The two California resolutions would cancel state rules that limit emissions from ships and workboats around ports, which is where the air-quality effect sits. The diesel emissions reauthorization pays for retrofits of existing diesel engines. 8910 |
| California voters | H.J.Res. 210; H.J.Res. 213; H.R. 9340; H.R. 9497; H.R. 2140 | The two resolutions, both sponsored by California Republicans, disapprove the federal decisions that let California enforce its own rules on ships at berth and on harbor craft. H.R. 9340 reaches the state's grid and its data-center load, and the water resources bill authorizes Army Corps projects that include flood protection, ports and water storage. 3111213 |
| AI founders | H.R. 9340; H.R. 8278; S. 2403 | H.R. 9340 is aimed at the 100-megawatt-and-up computing campuses, and it requires the customer behind the load to cover the grid upgrades it causes. H.R. 8278 asks banking supervisors to assess their ability to analyze the AI that financial firms now use. S. 2403 sets out how a plan fiduciaries may value closely held private-company stock. 345 |
Complete vote ledger
No vote-specific statement by Khanna was located on his official press-release page for any of this week's measures. The rationale field records that gap rather than assigning a motive to a vote. 14
| Date | Measure and House question | Khanna | Result | What the vote covered | House-stage status and rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 14 | H.R. 4219, National Wildlife Refuge System Invasive Species Strike Team Act — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 371–33 | Directs the Interior Secretary to establish a strike team program against invasive species in the National Wildlife Refuge System. 15 | Passed House; the Senate has not acted. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 16 |
| Sept. 14 | H.R. 3276, Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act of 2026 — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 345–60 | Directs the Interior Secretary to establish the Urban Bird Treaty Program. 17 | Passed House; the Senate has not acted. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 18 |
| Sept. 15 | H.Res. 1486, impeaching President Donald John Trump — motion to table | Nay | Tabled 232–147, 47 present | Rep. Al Green's impeachment resolution, filed August 24. Its first article alleges the President abused his powers by operating ICE and Customs and Border Protection as "vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces" and by covering up unjustified killings of civilians. 619 | Tabling ended House consideration of the resolution. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 20 |
| Sept. 15 | H.Res. 1530 — order the previous question | Nay | Passed 214–208 | A procedural vote on the rule for H.R. 9576, H.R. 10326, H.J.Res. 210, H.J.Res. 213 and the Senate amendments to H.R. 5334. 21 | Passed; it moved the rule toward adoption. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 22 |
| Sept. 15 | H.Res. 1530 — agree to the rule | No | Passed 214–211 | The adopted rule set one hour of debate and closed each measure to floor amendments before the votes that followed. 21 | Agreed to in the House. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 23 |
| Sept. 15 | H.R. 2978, GUARD Act — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 414–7 | Lets state, local and tribal law enforcement use money from certain federal grant programs to investigate general financial fraud, elder financial fraud and pig butchering, and lets federal agencies help them use blockchain and related tracing tools; requires reports from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. 24 | Passed House; received in the Senate September 16 and placed on its calendar. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 25 |
| Sept. 15 | H.R. 8278, FOSTER Act — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 417–7 | Requires named financial supervisory agencies to assess their technological capabilities, with findings on outdated supervisory technology and on the growth of artificial intelligence use by financial firms. 426 | Passed House; the Senate has not acted. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 27 |
| Sept. 15 | H.R. 4646, Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025 — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 424–0 | Extends whistleblower protections for employees of federal contractors and grant recipients to all Department of Housing and Urban Development contracts and grants, whatever date they were signed. 28 | Passed House; received in the Senate September 16 and referred to its banking committee. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 29 |
| Sept. 15 | H.R. 2140, Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025 — suspend the rules and pass | Yea | Passed 343–79 | Reauthorizes the diesel emissions reduction program, which pays for retrofits of existing diesel engines and fleets. 10 | Passed House; the Senate has not acted. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 30 |
| Sept. 15 | H.R. 9500, Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 408–17 | Repeals the limit on deductions for personal casualty losses and expands relief for theft losses involving fraud, deceit or misrepresentation. 31 | Passed House; the Senate has not acted. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 32 |
| Sept. 15 | H.J.Res. 210 — passage | Nay | Passed 216–211 | Disapproves the Environmental Protection Agency decision that authorized California's At-Berth rule for ocean-going vessels, the state's shore-power requirement for ships at berth. 911 | Passed House; goes to the Senate, where a simple majority suffices. A Congressional Review Act repeal would bar a substantially similar waiver later. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 33 |
| Sept. 15 | H.Con.Res. 93 — agree to the resolution | Yea | Passed 220–204 | Directs the President, under section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran. 34 | Passed House; concurrent resolutions are not signed by the President and carry no force of law. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 35 |
| Sept. 16 | H.R. 5334, Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 — concur in the Senate amendments | Nay | Passed 262–159 | Sanctions Russian state-linked people, banks and entities; bars Russian listings on United States securities exchanges; bans United States investment in Russia and in its energy sector; bans purchases of Russian sovereign debt; bars uranium imports from Russia; raises duties on Russian goods and on countries that buy Russian oil or gas or help evade sanctions; extends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. 736 | Passed both chambers in identical form; sent to the President. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 37 |
| Sept. 16 | H.R. 9576, National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026 — passage | Nay | Passed 352–72 | Gives statutory authority to the Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division, established in April 2026, which investigates and prosecutes fraud against taxpayer dollars and taxpayer-funded programs. 38 | Passed House; received in the Senate September 17. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 39 |
| Sept. 16 | H.R. 10326, PROOF Act — passage | Nay | Passed 217–207 | Requires states to give the Justice Department the information it needs to investigate or prosecute alleged fraud in Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, certain coronavirus-response payments and grants, and any other program it identifies as vulnerable; limits the information to law-enforcement use for fraud and requires annual reporting. 8 | Passed House; received in the Senate September 17 and referred to its judiciary committee. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 40 |
| Sept. 16 | H.J.Res. 213 — passage | Nay | Passed 214–208 | Disapproves the Environmental Protection Agency decision behind California's Commercial Harbor Craft rule, which has required tugs, ferries and other workboats in the state to run on renewable diesel since January 2023 and requires most of them to fit diesel particulate filters. 912 | Passed House; goes to the Senate, where a companion resolution is already filed. A Congressional Review Act repeal would bar a substantially similar waiver later. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 41 |
| Sept. 16 | H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 417–3 | Adds a federal standard requiring a utility's rate for a large-load customer to recover the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission or distribution upgrades that serve it, with financial assurances before construction. A large-load customer is a non-residential user needing 100 megawatts or more of peak demand, mainly to run data storage and computing. 342 | Passed House; the Senate has not acted. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 43 |
| Sept. 16 | H.R. 9497, Water Resources Development Act of 2026 — suspend the rules and pass, as amended | Yea | Passed 415–9 | Authorizes and modifies Army Corps of Engineers water-resource studies and projects for ports and harbors, navigation, flood and storm damage reduction, ecosystem restoration, shorelines, harmful algal blooms, dams, recreation, and water supply and storage. 13 | Passed House; received in the Senate September 17. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 44 |
| Sept. 16 | S. 2403, Retire through Ownership Act — suspend the rules and pass | Yea | Passed 401–14 | Amends ERISA so that an employee stock ownership plan's fiduciary may rely in good faith on an independent valuation of closely held stock made under the principles of IRS Revenue Ruling 59-60. 545 | Passed both chambers in identical form; sent to the President. Rationale: no vote-specific public statement located. 2 |
How the votes affect the five groups
H.J.Res. 210 and H.J.Res. 213: California's vessel-emission rules
The House passed two Congressional Review Act resolutions on straight party lines. H.J.Res. 210, sponsored by Rep. Vince Fong of California, disapproved the EPA decision behind the At-Berth rule for ocean-going vessels and passed 216–211, with 212 Republicans, three Democrats and one independent in favor. 11 H.J.Res. 213, sponsored by Rep. James Gallagher of California, disapproved the decision behind the Commercial Harbor Craft rule and passed 214–208, with 210 Republicans, three Democrats and one independent in favor. 12 Khanna voted Nay on both.
The harbor craft rule has put California's tugs, ferries and workboats on renewable diesel since January 2023 and requires most of them to fit diesel particulate filters. 9 Both resolutions now go to the Senate, where a simple majority is enough and a companion to H.J.Res. 213 is already filed. A Congressional Review Act repeal would also block any substantially similar waiver in the future. 9
- California voters: Direct. Both resolutions cancel federal authorization for a California rule. If the Senate agrees and the President signs, the state loses the two waivers and the EPA cannot grant a similar one later. 9
- Healthcare recipients: No health program, benefit or coverage rule appears in either resolution. The connection runs through air: the rules being disapproved limit emissions from ships berthed at California ports and from harbor craft, and the emissions they cut are the ones port communities breathe. 9
- Tech workers: No employment, technology or procurement rule appears in either resolution. Harbor craft and berthed ships are not computing infrastructure.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in either resolution. The air-quality question applies to residents near the affected ports whatever their status.
- AI founders: No direct effect. Neither resolution reaches data centers, computing or the electricity that supplies them.
H.R. 9340: who pays for the grid upgrades behind a data center
H.R. 9340 passed 417–3, with Khanna voting Yea. 43 The bill adds a federal standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. A utility's rate for a large-load customer must recover the full incremental cost of any generation, transmission or distribution upgrade needed to serve that customer's load, including if the customer cancels its contract or stops buying power. Before building such an upgrade, the utility must collect financial assurances or contributions covering its cost. 3
A large-load customer is defined as a non-residential buyer that needs power mainly to operate information-technology infrastructure for data storage and computing services and has 100 megawatts or more of aggregate peak demand at one site or campus. State regulators and nonregulated utilities must consider and decide on the standard within a year of enactment. 3
The standard applies to agreements entered into on or after enactment, so it governs new campuses and new contracts rather than the projects already running. 3
- AI founders: Direct. A computing campus at or above 100 megawatts of peak demand is the customer the bill names, and the customer behind such a load would carry the cost of the grid upgrades it causes, with money committed before construction starts. Whether that changes a given project depends on how the state regulator implements the standard and on what its contracts already say.
- Tech workers: Direct in the same way for employers that build or lease such campuses. For everyone else the bill acts on the other side of the same ledger: costs a large-load customer does not cover are spread across the remaining ratepayers.
- California voters: California has both large computing load and its own cost-allocation proceedings, and the state's regulator would have a year to decide how to apply the standard. 3 The bill names no California project or utility.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program, coverage rule or benefit change appears in the bill. Electricity is also a household cost, so a shift in who pays for grid upgrades reaches hospitals and clinics only through their power bills.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in the bill. Ratepayers face the same cost allocation whatever their status.
H.R. 10326 and H.R. 9576: fraud enforcement and state benefit data
The House passed both fraud measures over Khanna's Nay votes. H.R. 9576 passed 352–72 and gives statutory authority to the Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division, which was set up in April 2026 to investigate and prosecute fraud against taxpayer-funded programs. 3839 H.R. 10326, the PROOF Act, passed 217–207 and requires states to provide the information the Justice Department requires to investigate or prosecute alleged fraud in Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, coronavirus-response payments and grants, and other programs the department identifies as vulnerable. 840
H.R. 10326 permits a federal agency to use such information only for law-enforcement purposes related to fraud, forbids disclosure for unrelated administrative or commercial purposes, and requires the Justice Department to report each year on how many requests it issued, to which programs they related, and how many investigations and convictions followed. 8
- Healthcare recipients: Direct. Medicaid is one of the named programs, and the bill decides what state Medicaid agencies pass to federal investigators and what federal investigators may do with it. Eligibility, benefits and coverage stay as they are.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or eligibility rule appears in either bill, and the PROOF Act confines the information it covers to fraud enforcement. The programs named are ones immigrant households also use, so the practical question for those households is how their state agency answers a federal request.
- California voters: California runs Medi-Cal, CalFresh and CalWORKs, so the state agencies that would answer these requests are California's. Nothing in the bills sets a California amount or exemption.
- Tech workers: No direct effect. Fraud in federal benefit programs is investigated by the Justice Department and state agencies, not through technology-employer rules.
- AI founders: No direct effect. Neither bill creates an AI rule, a procurement program or a startup provision.
H.Res. 1486 and H.Res. 1530: the impeachment resolution and the rule
Rep. Al Green filed H.Res. 1486 on August 24, and its first article charges that the President abused his powers by running ICE and Customs and Border Protection as "vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces" that assaulted people and covered up unjustified killings of civilians. 6 The House voted 232–147 to table the resolution, with 47 members answering present. All 213 voting Republicans, 18 Democrats and one independent voted to table it, and 147 Democrats voted to keep it alive. 20 Khanna was among the 147.
Earlier the same day, the House adopted the rule that governed five of this week's measures, one hour of debate and no floor amendments. 21 Khanna voted Nay on the procedural question and No on the rule itself. 2223
- Immigrants: Direct. The tabled article was about how federal immigration enforcement operates. Tabling ended the House's consideration, so no impeachment proceeding followed from it. Khanna's Nay left the resolution alive.
- California voters: No state provision appears in either the resolution or the rule. The impeachment question is national, and the rule only set debate terms for four measures and one set of Senate amendments.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit appears in either the resolution or the rule.
- Tech workers: No technology, employment or procurement rule appears in either.
- AI founders: No direct effect. Neither the resolution nor the rule addresses AI, computing or startup finance.
H.R. 5334: the Russia and Iran sanctions act
The House agreed to the Senate amendments, 262–159, and the bill went to the President as the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. 737 The enrolled text imposes sanctions on people affiliated with or supporting the Russian government, on financial institutions tied to it and on entities it owns or controls. It bars Russian entities from listing or trading on United States securities exchanges, bars United States persons from investing in Russia or in its energy sector, bars purchases of Russian sovereign debt, bars international financial messaging systems from serving sanctioned Russian banks, bans uranium imports from Russia, raises duties on Russian goods and on countries that buy Russian oil or gas or help evade sanctions, and extends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. 7
The measure also carries immigration consequences: foreign nationals covered by the sanctions provisions are inadmissible to the United States, ineligible for a visa, and subject to revocation of any visa already issued, effective immediately. 7
The House Clerk's roll-call entry describes this measure with a different short description, an early-childhood educator tax provision. The enrolled text that both chambers agreed to identifies it as the sanctions act, and the Rules Committee's agenda for the same package lists it under that name. 72137
- Immigrants: The act makes the foreign nationals it covers inadmissible and revokes their visas. That is a consequence attached to named individuals under sanctions, and it changes no general eligibility rule, application process or benefit.
- Tech workers: No employment rule appears in the act. The exchange-listing, investment and financial-messaging provisions reach firms with Russian counterparties, and the uranium and energy provisions reach fuel supply chains.
- California voters: No state-specific provision appears in the act. California importers and energy consumers would feel the duties and the energy restrictions through prices rather than through a program.
- AI founders: No AI provision appears in the act. The investment prohibition applies to United States persons investing in Russia, which bears on capital flows rather than on domestic startup finance.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in the act. The uranium import ban concerns nuclear fuel.
H.Con.Res. 93: the Iran war powers resolution
The House agreed to a concurrent resolution directing the President, under section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran. The vote was 220–204, with 213 Democrats and 7 Republicans in favor, and Khanna voted Yea. 3435 Concurrent resolutions are not signed by the President and carry no force of law. 34 A companion resolution, H.Con.Res. 86, passed the House in June and the Senate on June 23. 34
- Tech workers: No direct effect. The resolution states a position on the use of force and carries no energy, procurement or employment rule.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in the resolution.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit change appears in the resolution.
- California voters: No state provision appears in the resolution.
- AI founders: No direct effect. The resolution contains no technology or finance provision.
S. 2403: valuing closely held stock in an employee plan
The House passed S. 2403, 401–14, with all 14 Nays coming from Republicans in the minority of that vote. Khanna voted Yea. 2 The bill amends ERISA so that the fiduciary of an employee stock ownership plan may rely in good faith on a valuation of closely held stock supplied by an independent valuation expert or business appraiser who applied the principles of IRS Revenue Ruling 59-60. The provision does not expand the Labor Department's regulatory authority beyond what it held the day before enactment, and it leaves the fiduciary duties in section 404 in place. 5 The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent in October 2025, and it now goes to the President. 45
- Tech workers: The bill governs how an employee stock ownership plan values private-company shares. It matters to a worker whose retirement account holds stock in a company that is not publicly traded, and to nobody else in this list.
- AI founders: A founder whose company's plan or employee ownership trust holds closely held shares is in the same position: the fiduciary gets a defined basis for relying on an independent valuation.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in the bill.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in the bill.
- California voters: No state-specific provision appears in the bill.
H.R. 8278: whether regulators can see what financial firms are doing
H.R. 8278, the FOSTER Act, passed 417–7 with Khanna voting Yea. 27 The bill requires named financial supervisory agencies to assess their technological capabilities. Its findings state that banking regulators examine and monitor institutions without sufficient access to real-time information, that outdated technology leaves agencies unable to compile timely data or detect illegal activity, and that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence use by financial firms creates both opportunities and risks that agencies must be equipped to analyze. 4
- AI founders: Direct in scope. The bill directs supervisors to assess whether they can analyze the AI that financial firms adopt. It places no requirement on the firms themselves.
- Tech workers: No direct effect on employment or technology rules. The bill changes how financial regulators staff and equip themselves.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in the bill.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in the bill.
- California voters: No state-specific provision appears in the bill, which applies to federal supervisory agencies.
H.R. 2978: elder fraud and blockchain tracing tools
The GUARD Act passed 414–7 with Khanna voting Yea. 25 It lets state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies and their grantees use money from certain federal law-enforcement grant programs to investigate general financial fraud, elder financial fraud and pig butchering, the confidence scam in which a victim is drawn into moving increasing sums, usually in cryptocurrency, into a fake investment. It also lets federal agencies help those agencies and fusion centers use blockchain and related tracing tools, and it requires the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to report on the state of these crimes and on its own efforts against them. 24
- Tech workers: No direct effect on employment or technology rules. The tracing provisions concern blockchain and cryptocurrency investigation capacity, which reaches firms in that sector as subjects of investigations rather than as regulated parties.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in the bill. The grant programs it amends fund state, local and tribal law enforcement.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in the bill.
- California voters: State and local agencies in California are eligible for the grant programs the bill expands. The bill sets no amount for the state and names no California agency.
- AI founders: No direct effect. The bill addresses cryptocurrency tracing; it contains no AI provision.
H.R. 2140 and H.R. 9497: diesel retrofits and water projects
H.R. 2140 reauthorizes the diesel emissions reduction program under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and passed 343–79, with 130 Republicans and 212 Democrats in favor and Khanna voting Yea. 1030 The program pays for retrofits of diesel engines already in service, and its sponsor is Rep. Doris Matsui of California. 10
H.R. 9497, the Water Resources Development Act of 2026, passed 415–9 with Khanna voting Yea. 44 It authorizes and modifies Army Corps of Engineers studies and projects for ports and harbors, navigation, flood and storm damage reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, shoreline protection, harmful algal blooms, dam rehabilitation, recreation, and water supply and storage, and it directs the Corps to set categorical permissions for harbor and river improvements with minimal environmental effects. 13
- California voters: Both bills carry conditional California effects. The diesel program awards grants competitively, so a California port, transit agency or fleet operator benefits only if it wins an award. The water bill sets authorizations rather than naming projects, so what reaches California depends on which Corps studies and projects proceed.
- Healthcare recipients: Diesel particulate matter is the part of the retrofit program that touches health, and the rules the two California resolutions would cancel target the same kind of pollution around ports. Reduced diesel exhaust lowers the pollution that aggravates asthma and heart and lung disease in the neighborhoods near the engines being retrofitted. H.R. 9497 lists water supply and flood protection among the project categories it authorizes.
- Tech workers: No direct effect. Neither bill sets employment, technology or procurement rules.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in either bill. The projects and grants are open to the places that qualify, whatever the status of their residents.
- AI founders: No direct effect. Neither bill addresses computing, permitting for data centers or startup finance.
H.R. 9500: tax deductions for fraud and casualty losses
The Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act passed 408–17 with Khanna voting Yea. 32 It repeals the limitation on deductions for personal casualty losses and provides increased taxpayer relief for theft losses involving fraud, deceit or misrepresentation. 31
- Tech workers: No direct rule for employers or employees. The bill works through individual tax returns.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or eligibility rule appears in the bill. It conditions relief on the kind of loss, not on immigration status.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in the bill.
- California voters: The change applies to federal tax filings in every state, with no California allocation.
- AI founders: No direct effect. The bill contains no business or investment provision.
H.R. 4646: whistleblower protection at HUD
The Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025 passed 424–0 with Khanna voting Yea, the week's only unanimous recorded vote. 29 The bill extends existing whistleblower protections for employees of federal contractors and grant recipients to all Department of Housing and Urban Development contracts and grants, whatever date they were signed, closing the gap left by the 2013 effective date. 28
- Tech workers: Conditional. A worker at a company holding a HUD contract or grant would gain protection from retaliation for reporting misconduct involving federal funds. The bill reaches no other employer.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in the bill. Its protection attaches to the employment relationship rather than to citizenship.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in the bill.
- California voters: HUD contractors and grantees operating in California fall under the bill like those elsewhere. The bill names no state or locality.
- AI founders: No direct effect. The bill concerns housing contracts and grants.
H.R. 4219 and H.R. 3276: refuges and urban birds
The House passed two conservation bills by suspension. H.R. 4219 passed 371–33 and directs the Interior Secretary to establish a National Wildlife Refuge System Invasive Species Strike Team Program. 1516 H.R. 3276 passed 345–60 and directs the Interior Secretary to establish the Urban Bird Treaty Program. 1718 Khanna voted Yea on both.
- California voters: Conditional. California holds national wildlife refuges and cities that could join an urban bird treaty, but neither bill names a refuge, a city or a state, and the program decisions come later.
- Tech workers: No direct effect. Neither bill sets an employment, technology or procurement rule.
- Immigrants: No status, visa or benefit rule appears in either bill.
- Healthcare recipients: No health program or benefit provision appears in either bill.
- AI founders: No direct effect. Neither bill addresses computing or finance.
Beyond the floor votes
On September 17, the day after the Iran war powers resolution passed, Khanna introduced the Illegal War Refund Act. The bill would require the Office of Management and Budget to calculate the war's annual economic cost to taxpayers, transfer an equal amount from the Defense Department to the Treasury, and pay it out to tax filers and their dependents, exempting accounts for military personnel, military construction and the Defense Health Program. 46
In his statement, Khanna said the war is in its eighth month without congressional authorization and that taxpayers should not carry its costs. The release attributes an estimate of $230 billion, or $1,760 per household, to Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. 46
The introduction is a separate action from the week's recorded votes. It carries no roll call, has no committee action yet, and appears in this tracker only to keep the two apart. 14
Bottom line
Four threads from this week reach the groups this tracker follows. California's authority to enforce its own vessel-emission rules is now before the Senate, after the House passed H.J.Res. 210 and H.J.Res. 213 over Khanna's Nay votes. H.R. 9340, which Khanna supported, makes a computing campus of 100 megawatts or more pay for the grid upgrades it causes. H.R. 10326, which he opposed, puts state Medicaid, SNAP and TANF information in reach of federal fraud investigators while limiting its use to fraud cases. The impeachment resolution about ICE and Customs and Border Protection was tabled, with Khanna voting to keep it alive.
Every measure the House passed this week is still moving: two bills await the President's signature, the two California resolutions await a Senate vote where a simple majority decides, and the rest sit with Senate committees or the Senate calendar.
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- 11H.J.Res. 210 on GovTrack
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- 12H.J.Res. 213 on GovTrack
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- 13H.R. 9497 on Congress.gov
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- 34H.Con.Res. 93 on GovTrack
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- 35Roll Call 307
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- 36H.R. 5334 on GovTrack
govtrack.us
- 37Roll Call 308
clerk.house.gov
- 38H.R. 9576 on Congress.gov
congress.gov
- 39Roll Call 309
clerk.house.gov
- 40Roll Call 310
clerk.house.gov
- 41Roll Call 311
clerk.house.gov
- 42H.R. 9340 on GovTrack
govtrack.us
- 43Roll Call 312
clerk.house.gov
- 44Roll Call 313
clerk.house.gov
- 45S. 2403 on GovTrack
govtrack.us
- 46Illegal War Refund Act release
khanna.house.gov
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