What is Ro Khanna?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Ro Khanna |image = Ro Khanna, official portrait, 115th Congress.jpg |state = [[California]] |district = {{ushr|CA|17|17th}} |term_start = January 3, 2017 |term_end = |predecessor = [[Mike Honda]] |successor = |birth_name = Rohit Khanna |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|9|13}} |birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]],<br>U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |relatives = [[Amarnath Vidyalankar]] (Grandfather) |education = [[University of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Yale University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]]) |website = {{url|khanna.house.gov|House website}} }} '''Rohit Khanna''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|oʊ|_|ˈ|k|ɑː|n|ə}}; born September 13, 1976) is an American academic, lawyer and politician. He is the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[California's 17th congressional district]] since 2017. He is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. He beat then-current Representative [[Mike Honda]] in the general election on November 8, 2016, after first running for the same seat in 2014. == Career == Khanna also served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the [[United States Department of Commerce]] under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Barack Obama]] from August 8, 2009 to August 2011. Khanna only accepts donations from individuals and is one of only six members of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], and ten total members of [[United States Congress|Congress]], who do not take campaign contributions from [[Political Action Committees]] (PACs) or corporations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cleanslatenow.org/2017/09/15/u-s-senate-senators-pac-fundraising-in-their-current-election-cycles/|title=U.S. Senate — Senators’ PAC Fundraising in their current Election Cycles|date=2017-09-15|work=CleanSlateNow.org|access-date=2018-02-08|language=en-US|archive-date=2019-03-25|arc