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WASHINGTON, DC — Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi and Mark DeSaulnier of the Oversight Committee wrote to Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings yesterday, urging them to hold hearings to address the continuing problems with the White House security clearance process and the full extent of the issue throughout the executive branch.

SCHAUMBURG, IL - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Education's decision to block states from enforcing consumer protections against student loan collection companies:

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) today called on the FBI to provide a comprehensive summary of the powers and jurisdiction that allow it to monitor social media for warning signs that individuals are planning mass violence as well as the privacy and due process safeguards that exist.

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today demanded Secretary of State Rex Tillerson explain why the State Department failed to spend any of the $120 million provided by Congress to counter Russian and other foreign attempts to disrupt American elections and sow distrust in democratic governance.

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi today called on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to make public the clients of EPA Deputy Associate Administrator of Public Affairs John Konkus, who is currently providing consulting services concurrent to his public official position. This is extremely troubling, even more so because Mr. Konkus' responsibilities include overseeing hundreds of millions of federal grant dollars. In August, an EPA ethics lawyer noted that Mr.

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Congressman Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the scheduled end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

"Six months ago, the Trump administration made clear that it would refuse to protect our nation's Dreamers when it announced plans to end the DACA program. Today, as we come to the self-imposed deadline, it is clear that Congress has also failed its obligation to protect our Dreamers.

SCHAUMBURG, IL — Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi today called on the Office of Government Ethics to evaluate Jared Kushner's actions with regard to Kushner's financial conflicts of interest; specifically the New York Times' report that his family business which he previously led, the Kushner Companies, received more than half a billion dollars i

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi today called on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to confirm the downgrade of Jared Kushner's interim security clearance downgrade and to provide a list of others affected under the new White House policy. This follows the letter Congressmen Krishnamoorthi and Ted Lieu led 14 colleagues in sending to the White House yesterday regarding the state of Kushner's security clearance.