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February 26, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, in the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's joint hearing with the House Committee on Homeland Security on the SolarWinds cyberattack, titled "Weathering the Storm: The Role of Private Tech in the SolarWinds Breach and Ongoing Campaign," Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi questioned Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith on what steps would need to be taken to remedy breached networks. This hearing was held to uncover information on the 2019 "supply chain attack" of SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software by foreign actors.


February 26, 2021

WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, who serves on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and chairs the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, issued the following statement in response to the announcement of the United Center becoming a mass vaccination site in Chicago:


February 25, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, who serves as a Vice Chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, hailed the passage of the Equality Act this afternoon:


February 24, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, in the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's hearing on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), titled "Legislative Proposals to Put the Postal Service on Sustainable Financial Footing," Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi questioned Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on the failures of the Postal Service during his tenure and its increasingly slow and late mail delivery.


February 23, 2021

WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) are reintroducing the bipartisan Fixing America's Bridges Act, which would reestablish a federal f


February 20, 2021

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to yesterday's briefing held by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on which he serves:


February 18, 2021

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the news that the immigration plan introduced today in Congress, with the backing of President Bi


February 12, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08), who chairs the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, will continue his longstanding effort to provide Illinois with state and local funding through the $350 billion aid package under review in the Oversight Committee's afternoon bill markup proceedings.


February 10, 2021

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the first day of former President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate:


February 9, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08) and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA-14) sent an inquiry to both DLive and BitTorrent Inc. regarding the use of their online streaming platform to recruit and finance domestic extremism and white supremacy. Ahead of the insurrection at the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021, the DLive platform was utilized to raise funds through their cryptocurrency platform, and during the insurrection many live streamed the event to the platform's communities.