China Select Committee to Get New Top Democrat
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., announced Jan. 5 that he has appointed Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., to replace Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., as ranking member of the House Select Committee on China.
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Krishnamoorthi, who has led the committee’s Democrats for three years, is stepping down from the role later this month to devote more time to his bid to succeed retiring Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Khanna will bring different perspectives to the position. While Krishnamoorthi and committee Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., both supported a 2024 law requiring China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a U.S. ban on the popular social media application, Khanna opposed it on free-speech grounds (see 2501210051). And while Krishnamoorthi and Moolenaar have opposed allowing Nvidia to sell certain advanced chips to China (see 2512090050), Khanna’s congressional district covers much of Silicon Valley, including Nvidia’s headquarters.