Just two weeks after she introduced it, San Jose Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren’s election interference bill passed in the House on Wednesday, the same day lawmakers continued an ongoing discussion about Facebook’s role in elections. A bill introduced by Lofgren, H.R. 4617, would require campaigns to report offers of illicit campaign assistance from foreign entities, create...
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Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna says House will vote on impeachment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna says he’s going to be on the road over the next 100 days as campaign co-chair for Senator and 2020 presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. But before he packs his bags for the campaign trail, San José Spotlight caught up with Khanna last Friday inside his Washington office for a...
Silicon Valley congressmembers return from recess tackling big issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Silicon Valley’s congressional leaders returned to Capitol Hill this week after a two-week recess and the local delegation jumped into a number of critical issues, including a push to bolster election security, lower prescription drug prices, reduce access to e-cigarettes and continue waging the war on President Donald Trump. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren a...
Zoe Lofgren leads coalition to file Supreme Court brief to defend DACA
WASHINGTON, D.C. — San Jose Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced Friday they’d led a bipartisan group of lawmakers to file a brief with the Supreme Court in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. A coalition of 172 current and former lawmakers — 49 from the Senate and 123 from the...