Press Releases
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Last week, Safe Kids Worldwide, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing childhood injuries, recognized Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi for his efforts to increase booster seat safety by presenting him with the Child Passenger Safety Award. As Chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, Congressman Krishnamoorthi has been Congress's top advocate for child car safety, leading the investigation which exposed potentially deadly safety failures in child booster seats which had been covered up by manufacturers.
CHICAGO – At today's press conference at Chicago Union Station, alongside Metra CEO Jim Derwinski, Metra COO Kevin McCann, and Hanover Park Mayor Rodney Craig, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi released a new memo detailing the frequency and duration of delays caused by freight interference on Metra's Milwaukee District-West (MD-W) line.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi joined President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House today to celebrate Diwali. Diwali, also referred to as the ‘Festival of Lights' is a holiday that celebrates the triumph of good over evil.
WASHINGTON – Late last week, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi sent a letter to Martin J. Oberman, Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), formally requesting the STB to direct the Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) to conduct a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Chicago area before reaching any final decision on the status of the merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads.
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, in response to OPEC's announcement that it would make its biggest cut to oil production since the beginning of the pandemic, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi reaffirmed his call for President Biden to eliminate oil refining bottlenecks contributing to high gas prices by any means necessary, including invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA).
WASHINGTON – In today's Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing examining the harm to patients from abortion restrictions, Congressman Krishnamoorthi questioned expert witnesses on the likely effects of the national abortion ban recently proposed by Congressional Republicans, led by Senator Lindsay Graham and supported by Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, sponsor of the Ban Conflicted Trading Act and leader of a bipartisan letter earlier this month calling for a vote on legislation to ban Members of Congress from trading individual stocks, issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) and Hank Johnson (GA-04) led six of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the State Department to work with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to support efforts to investigate and hold accountable alleged perpetrators of war crimes during the Sri Lankan Civil War, including former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family. The U.S Representatives.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi enthusiastically welcomed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's commitment to bring a congressional stock trading ban to the floor by the end the month.
WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, issued the following statement hailing the announcement of a $439 million settlement between Juul and 34 states and te