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January 8, 2024

PALATINE, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi led a panel at Harper College focused on skilled-based hiring practices and equitable workforce initiatives, including fighting degree-based discrimination in hiring.


January 8, 2024

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi joined with Illinois Tollway Executive Director Cassaundra Rouse and other Tollway leaders to mark the progress that has been made on the Elgin O’Hare Western Access (EOWA) project and to provide updates on construction plans for 2024.


January 4, 2024

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Illinois released a new report that shows the U.S. Census Bureau missed 46,400 Illinois residents during the 2020 Census. The official Post-Census Group Quarters Review, set up in conjunction with the Census Bureau, the state of Illinois, and research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, found that 733 group quarters were undercounted or missed completely during the 2020 Census.


December 20, 2023

SCHAUMBURG, IL - Congressman Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement following a U.S. Census Bureau release claiming Illinois' population had declined.


December 18, 2023

SCHAUMBURG – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi presented Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) with a check commemorating the $250,000 in federal community project funding the Congressman secured for its Career and Technical Education (CTE) program.


December 18, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joined with Reps. Emilia Sykes (OH-13), Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Tony Cárdenas (CA-29) in introducing the Improving Newborns’ Food and Nutrition Testing Safety (INFANTS) Act, legislation which will set requirements that baby food products be tested for toxic heavy metals and the results be reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


December 15, 2023

WASHINGTON – In response to the Thursday passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included provisions to “enhance major defense partnership” between the United States and India and to “ensure that India is appropriately considered for cooperative defense activities consistent with the status of Indi


December 14, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party voted to pass H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024, which invests in core elements of American national defense, including our service members, our commitments to security partners and allies, and our own industrial base and capacity.


December 6, 2023

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, as part of the commemoration of Wednesday’s 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi was honored by the organizers of the Conference on Social Progress Since Repealing the Chinese Exclusion Act 80 Years Ago (CRCEA) with an award for his outstanding contributions to the Asian American community.


December 4, 2023

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joined Reps. Tony Cárdenas (CA-29), Katie Porter (CA-47), Sean Casten (IL-06), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), as well as Sens. Tammy Duckworth (IL), and Amy Klobuchar (MN), to call on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider the sources of the over 50 recently reported cases of lead poisoning and subsequent recall of popular baby food brands.