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SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, who serves as Ranking Member of the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, issued the following statement in response to recent comments made by Representative Lance Gooden about Representative Judy Chu:

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the second powerful earthquake in less than a month wreaking destruction on Turkey, Syria, and the broader region:

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08) and Delia Ramirez (D-IL-03) today sent a letter to Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Martin Oberman urging the STB to defer any decision on the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) railroads until the STB completes a more accurate assessment of the impacts of the merger on the Chicago region.

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the announcement of Air India's agreement to purchase 190 Boeing 737 MAXs, 20 Boeing 787s, and 10 Boeing 777Xs – a total of 220 firm orders valued at a list price of $34 billion which will support more than one million American jobs across 44 states, many of which will not require a four-year college degree:

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi is set to bring Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, as his guest at the State of the Union in Washington, D.C. Ms. Abbas is an outspoken Uyghur human rights advocate, becoming one of the most prominent Uyghur voices in the world following her sister's detainment by the Chinese Communist Party in 2018. In February 2022, Campaign for Uyghurs, which Ms.

WASHINGTON –Select Committee on the CCP Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today released the following statement regarding the suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) and seven other Members of the House sent a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy requesting the Speaker to bring legislation to ban the trading of stocks by Members of Congress to the House floor for a vote as soon as possible. The letter, cosigned by Reps.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced the Shielding All Federal Employees and Consumers from Actionable Recall Situations Act, or the SAFE CARS Act. This bill would prohibit the federal government from selling vehicles with an open and actionable recall to the public and requires federal agencies that lease or own vehicles with an available recall to remedy the defect, which is a free process for the user.