Press Releases
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), Congresswoman Janelle Bynum (D-OR), and Congressman John McGuire (R-VA) introduced the bipartisan Federal Jobs for STARs Act today, legislation to modernize federal hiring by reducing unnecessary bachelor's degree requirements for many federal jobs and helping ensure qualified workers who are Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) can compete for federal jobs based on their skills and experience.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urging HHS to establish comprehensive, enforceable standards for toxic heavy metals in infant formula and baby food. The letter cites years of scientific evidence linking early-life exposure to toxic heavy metals with serious developmental harms and calls on HHS to take the regulatory action necessary to better protect America's children.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today issued the following statement after a report from MS NOW that the FBI directed hundreds of intelligence analysts and other personnel to support an investigation related to the 2020 election in Georgia:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Congresswoman Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday led a bicameral letter, joined by 53 of their colleagues, urging Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to add microplastics to the agency's recently published Sixth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 6).
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump's executive order seeking to deny citizenship to many children born in the United States:
WASHINGTON — Days after warning during a congressional hearing that President Trump's effort to reject timely cast mail ballots would disenfranchise military servicemembers and other Americans who rely on voting by mail, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to today's Supreme Court decision:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, warned Postmaster General David Steiner on Thursday that he will pursue a congressional subpoena and lead efforts to remove him from office if the U.S. Postal Service continues advancing a proposal tied to President Trump's March executive order that would limit mail ballot delivery to voters appearing on a federally maintained voter list.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's National Intelligence Enterprise Subcommittee (HPSCI-NIE), issued the following statement after reports linked Russian hackers to a 2025 cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover that forced the company to suspend production for five weeks and contributed to an estimated $2.5 billion economic hit to the United Kingdom.
WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Congressman Greg Landsman (D-OH) led a 44-member effort on Wednesday urging the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to abandon a Trump Administration proposal requiring current and future federal employees to sign indefinite, government-wide nondisclosure agreements.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today questioned witnesses during a Democratic shadow hearing titled "Abandoning Americans to Disease: The Trump Administration's Reckless Crusade Is Harming America's Health," examining how public health cuts, vaccine misinformation, failures to address toxic heavy metals in baby food, and weakened anti-vaping efforts have undermined the Trump Administration's promise to "Make America Healthy Again."