Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi voted for the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, which he also cosponsored, and urged his Senate colleagues to take up and pass the legislation as well:
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of the Intelligence and Oversight Committees called for a full investigation into the President's firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, purportedly at Secretary Pompeo's urging, as Mr.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi hailed House passage of the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solution (HEROES) Act, which would provide critical funding and resources to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The HEROES Act, which now heads to the Senate, includes a number of provisions that Congressman Krishnamoorthi pushed for including increased funding for state and local governments, provisions for expanded mental health resources, support for state service commissions, and improvements to the Paycheck Protection Program.
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to their letter to congressional leaders earlier today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi urged his Republican colleagues to work with Governor Pritzker and support the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solution (HEROES) Act stimulus package:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi responded to the insider trading investigations into multiple senators, including outgoing Senate Intelligence Chairman Burr, by calling for Congress to pass the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, his legislation which would bar members of Congress from buying and selling individual stocks.
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced legislation to allow state service commissions to redeploy AmeriCorps resources and personnel to the communities most in need of assistance as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Yesterday, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi led 90 of his colleagues in Congress in sending a bipartisan letter to House leadership calling for the inclusion of enhanced mental health resources for healthcare workers in the next coronavirus aid package. The letter requested that an HHS grant program be established to allow healthcare employers and facilities to confidentially assess and treat the mental health of frontline workers in addition to ordering a comprehensive study on healthcare workers' mental health.
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi released the following statement in response to an alarming new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities detailing the impact of COVID-19 on state and local budgets:
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, which holds jurisdiction over the Treasury Department, issued the following statement in response to a report that the Treasury Department's completely unprecedented decision to include the President's name on stimulus checks could delay Americans receiving the payments:
WASHINGTON, DC – Following an FDA decision permitting labs and commercial manufacturers to develop and distribute blood-based serology tests for coronavirus without requiring FDA review, Congressman Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), as Chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy,