Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi and his colleague Rep. Jan Schakowsky introduced legislation that would prohibit airlines from involuntarily ‘bumping' ticketed passengers from flights. The bill, titled the Bumping on Overbooked Airplanes Requires Dealing Fairly (BOARD Fairly) Act, would ensure that the unacceptable incident that occurred on United Airlines Flight 3411 never happens again.

VILLA PARK, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi hosted a town hall meeting Saturday at Villa Park's Willowbrook High School, welcoming his constituents and answering their questions. Over the course of the ninety-minute meeting, Rep. Krishnamoorthi responded to unscreened questions running the gamut from the flaws of a new Republican health care proposal, to the looming possibility of a government shutdown, to the Congressman's work on behalf of environmental protection and completing the economically essential Elgin O'Hare Western Access project.

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi yesterday sent a letter co-signed by twenty-one community leaders urging the US Surface Transportation Board to approve the Tollways' petition to allow continued construction of the Elgin O'Hare Western Access Project.

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today hosted a jobs summit on the economic impact of developing western access to O'Hare International Airport at a bipartisan gathering of key stakeholders, including government, business and labor leaders. Rep. Krishnamoorthi held the event in Schaumburg and led discussion of the economic benefits the infrastructure project would bring to Chicago's west and northwest suburbs. Rep.

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi released the following statement on President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes in response to Bashar al-Assad's use of illegal chemical weapons in an attack which killed more than one hundred people:

"Bashar al-Assad's massacre of men, women, and children through the use of banned chemical weapons is only his most recent atrocity. The Assad regime must be held to account for the horrors it has wrought upon its own people. This newest barbarism serves as a reminder that the Assad regime must go.

WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the news that Representative Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, had recused himself from the committee's Russia probe, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement:

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi denounced President Trump's executive order eliminating President Obama's climate-change protections as an attack on the growing green economy and as another example of the Trump administration's effort to govern by decree. Rep. Krishnamoorthi is the author of the Executive Order Transparency Act, which would require executive orders to be posted to the White House website seventy-two hours in advance of signing, to reveal their contents. The Congressman also introduced H. Res.

WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the failure of the Republican American Health Care Act (AHCA) to even come to a vote in the House, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi released the following statement:

"Our country won today because a bill with disastrous consequences was stopped in its tracks. Countless Americans made their voices heard as a bill that could have devastated our economy and left more than 24 million people without health care nearly came to the floor. Because of their efforts, it never received a vote."