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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08) released the following statement strongly urging the Administration's Coronavirus Task Force to immediately issue a concrete plan to cover and protect uninsured and underinsured Americans from the coronavirus in the United States:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) was honored today as an American Graduate Champion by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in recognition of his commitment to providing communities with high-quality educational content and expanding educational pathways for students of all ages.

CHICAGO, I.L.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, nine members of Congress, whose families all received government food assistance at some point in their lives, wrote to President Donald J. Trump opposing his proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently serves 36 million Americans of modest means.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi responded to President Donald Trump's recent budget proposal that shifts the oversight of tobacco products from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to its own independent agency run by a Trump-picked director.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Congressman Ralph Norman (R-SC) led a bipartisan group of fifty-one members of Congress in a letter to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf encouraging him to expand the department's outreach to higher education institutions through the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (HSAAC).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in the wake of NJOY's announcement that it would voluntarily cease all sales of fruit-flavored disposable e-cigarette, Congressman Krishnamoorthi reaffirmed his call for the FDA to ban all flavored e-cigarettes, including flavored disposable e-cigarettes.