: Ro Khanna: Tech-funding bill is ‘not just about jobs — It’s about a new patriotism’

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Rep. Ro Khanna, a congressman from Silicon Valley, wrote the Endless Frontier Act as part of a wide-ranging tech innovation bill that seemed to be on a fast track before reaching a stalemate in Congress.

Before the recent political developments that have endangered the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to block it because he is against the Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill — MarketWatch talked with Khanna, D-Calif., about the bill, including about how it is meant…