Press Releases
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi is demanding immediate accountability from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following reports that ICE personnel deployed hazardous chemical agents, including tear gas, and a flash-bang grenade during a December 6 enforcement operation in a residential Elgin neighborhood that sent multiple residents for medical evaluation.
WASHINGTON — During today’s joint Oversight Committee hearing on lowering health care costs, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, pressed his colleagues to take immediate action to prevent steep premium hikes for Illinois families and to block deep Medicaid and ACA cuts that would destabilize hospitals across the state.
ELGIN, IL — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement on reports that an ICE operation yesterday in Elgin, within his district, resulted in a vehicle crash and the deployment of chemical irritants that exposed nearby residents — including at least one young child — to harmful agents:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement after the Supreme Court agreed to hear President Trump’s challenge to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship:
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement regarding the Department of Defense Inspector General’s report on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of a Signal thread to share detailed plans for an impending United States military strike on Houthi terrorists in Yemen:
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) joined with Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-VA) to introduce the Increasing Medication Access for Seniors Act of 2025, legislation that will lower the costs of prescription drugs and improve health care access for seniors and military families. The legislation helps Medicare beneficiaries better access the new Medicare Prescription Payment Plan, which allows seniors to spread high annual drug costs over 12 months interest-free.
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem raising alarms over what he describes as persistent, systemic failures by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to provide detainees with access to Privacy Release Form 60-001, the federally required document that allows Members of Congress to lawfully obtain information about individual detainee cases and intervene when rights violations or urgent safety issues arise.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) released the following statement on the need to increase funding and support for women's health care:
WASHINGTON – This afternoon, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted to approve Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi’s (D-IL) bipartisan Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act. The committee’s passage sets up a full vote by the full House in the coming weeks.
WASHINGTON – This afternoon, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted to pass Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi’s (D-IL) legislation to rename the Post Office at 1300 East Northwest Highway in Palatine as the Bernie Bluestein Post Office Building. The committee’s passage sets up a full vote by the full House in the coming weeks.