WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi questions FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf regarding his agency's failure to swiftly address the youth vaping epidemic or reduce the dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals in baby food. [Click the image above to view their full exchange] During today's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi confront  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who served eight years on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released a statement on the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). "In my eight years on the House Intelligence Committee, I witnessed firsthand the role that FISA has played in ensuring our security. Now, thanks to those in Congress   more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Rep. Bradley Schneider, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: In a new letter, Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10) led 21 Members of Congress in urging U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press world leaders to call on Hamas to accept the proposed hostage deal. "More than six months since Hamas launched its war against Israel, hostages - including American citizens - continue to languish in Gaza's terror tunnels," the Members write. "Hamas refuses to confirm how  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Rep. Bradley Schneider, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Representative Brad Schneider (IL-10) released the following statement on the Arizona Supreme Court decision reviving an 1864 law, allowing a near-total abortion ban: "The devastating legal precedent set by Trump's Supreme Court in the Dobbs decision continues to reverberate through our legal system, from Alabama's ruling ending IVF and today in Arizona, an archaic, near total ban on abortion. I wil  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on April 12, 2024: * * * U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on today's announcement that the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency are releasing the first installment of congressionally-approved federal funds as part of the Fiscal Year 2  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) and Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01), along with Congressman Colin Allred (TX-32) introduced the bipartisan Opportunities for Non-developed Sites to Have Opportunities to be Rehabilitated for Economic Development (ONSHORE) Act. This legislation will help strengthen our supply chains by giving communities the tools that they need to attract manufacturing jobs  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi was awarded the 2023 Public Officials Award by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for his "documented, significant contribution in the areas of clean water legislation, public policy, government service, or another area of public prominence that resulted in improvements to the water environment." Congressman Krishnamoorthi was recognized for his contrib  more