WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Yesterday, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's legislation to rename the St. Charles East Side Station Post Office as the Veterans of the Vietnam War Memorial Post Office was signed into law by President Joe Biden. The legislation unanimously passed the House 390-0 in October and the Senate via unanimous consent in April. "By renaming the post office in St. Charles after the veterans who bravely served   more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today met with Springfield Mayor Misty Buscher and more than a dozen members of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce to underscore her commitment to helping create good-paying local jobs and support entrepreneurs. The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce serves as a hub for businesses in the Springfield area. Their mission is to support local enterprises, foster eco  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced $150,346,316 through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Capital Fund Program, which offers annual funding to public housing authorities to build, renovate, and modernize the public housing in their communities. "Access to safe and dependable public housing is critically important for f  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced a joint resolution that would finally enshrine an explicit, individual right to vote in the U.S. Constitution, and protect all Americans who seek to exercise this fundamental right. "In the words of the late John Lewis, the right to vote is 'the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument we have i  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-16) released the following statement after he voted to table the Motion to Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson: "The Motion to Vacate was a bad idea in October, and it is an even worse idea now when we should be furthering a conservative agenda that supports hardworking American families. Speaker Mike Johnson inherited an incredibly challenging Congress with the slimmest majority in our   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Illinois, issued the following news release: Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA), members of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced the Bringing Back American Jobs Through Intellectual Property Repatriation Act, which will remove obstacles within the tax code to incentivize American businesses to return valuable intellectual property to the United States. This bill will support increased research and innovation domestica  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03)released the following statement on the impending May 8th congressional reporting deadline required by President Biden's National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20) on foreign governments' use of U.S. arms: "This morning, we awoke to news that Israel had begun its incursion into Rafah. An incursion that the Biden Administration and the international community oppose  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Mary Miller, R-Illinois, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: This week, Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) introduced the Preserving America's Farmland Act, which would force the Department of Agriculture to assess the impacts that solar panel installations, operation, and decommissioning have on the health of farm soil, livestock, water drainage, and vegetation. Representative Miller made the following statement: "As a family farmer, I am very concerned w  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Dream Deferred: The Urgent Need to Protect Immigrant Youth." The hearing will emphasize the urgent need for Congress to pass legal protections for noncitizens who were br  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, met with representatives of Raven, a 501(c)(4) organization representing the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces, including its CEO John Pizzuro. The group discussed the ICAC Task Force Program, representing over 5,400 federal, state, and  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Dream Deferred: The Urgent Need to Protect Immigrant Youth." The hearing emphasized the urgent need for Congress to pass legal protections for noncitizens who were brought to the United States a  more