Press Releases

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence as Chair of the White House Coronavirus Task Force to urge him to safeguard the credibility of the Task Force by requesting that political campaigns refrain from using statements from Task Force experts and other public health officials in advertisements that take their statements out of context or otherwise contribute to the spread of misinformation.

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Krishnamoorthi submitted a statement into the Congressional Record commemorating Distracted Driving Awareness Month. This year marks 10 years since Congress declared the first Distracted Driving Awareness Month in 2010, and it has continued to be an important issue as more than 700 people die or are injured every day in the United States as a result of distracted driving crashes.

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy and Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education joined with Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), and Whip James E.

SCHAUMBURG, IL – In response to today's news that President Trump has decided to end negotiations with Congress on a new COVID-19 relief bill until after the November election, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement:

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement amid President Trump's ongoing stay at Walter Reed National Medical Center:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-8), together with India Caucus Chairmen Brad Sherman (CA-30) and George Holding (NC-2), as well as Representatives Ami Bera (CA-7), Pramila Jayapal (WA-7), and Ro Khanna (CA-17), introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the life of Mahatma Gandhi and his enduring legacy in the present world.

WASHINGTON, DC – In the wake of President Trump claiming earlier this week that he had the power to overrule the FDA and order it to approve a vaccine that didn't meet the standards of its own safeguards, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi wrote to President Trump on Friday, asking him to commit to vaccinating his own family, before November 3^rd, with any vaccine the FDA approves by November

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Brenda Lawrence (MI-14), Jackie Speier (CA-14), Lois Frankel (FL-21), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), and Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) introduced legislation calling for the Joint Committee on the Library to add a statue or bust of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the U.S. Capitol Building.