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January 16, 2023

SCHAUMBURG, IL — Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to last Wednesday's violent attack on an Indiana University student by a woman who told police she targeted the victim for "being Chinese," adding "it would be one less person to blow up our country":


January 9, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today sent a letter to the CEO of ESPN, James Pitaro, expressing concern that ESPN has allowed TikTok to sponsor halftime shows of recent NCAA college football bowl games.


December 30, 2022

WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the decision by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to delay lowering the threshold for Form 1099-K reporting by one year, an announcement which follows a bipartisan letter sent by Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi and colleagues on December 19th.


December 23, 2022

WASHINGTON – In response to the passage of the omnibus government funding bill, which included a provision to ban the app TikTok from government devices, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement:


December 23, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi joined his colleagues in voting to pass the twelve-bill omnibus package, funding the federal government through Fiscal Year 2023, averting a government shutdown, and advancing a range of provisions championed by the Congressman. As the bill has already passed the Senate, this legislation will go straight to President Biden's desk to be signed into law.


December 13, 2022

WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, co-founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Solar Caucus and a member of the bipartisan Fusion Energy Caucus, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announcing the first ever meaningful net energy gain from a human-controlled fusion ignition and fusion energy reaction in a December 5th experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) National Ignition Facility:


December 13, 2022

WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to a new report of a clash last week between Indian and People's Republic of China (PRC) forces near the contested frontier of the two nations resulting from the PRC


December 12, 2022

WASHINGTON – On Friday, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas requesting information on the apparent recent surge in antisemitic online content and rhetoric, even after the Anti-Defamation League's annual review for 2021 reported the highest number of antisemitic incidents in a single year since the organization began tracking them.