WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Krishnamoorthi Blasts Supreme Court Ruling Granting DOGE Access to Social Security Data * WASHINGTON - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's decision (link is external) to grant the Trump Administration's DOGE team access to Social Security data: "With this ruling, the Supreme Court has once again chosen Donald Trump's   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 7 -- Chicago Teachers Union issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * CTU condemns federal attack on Chicago families and ICE agent violence against protestors In response to the events yesterday where ICE detained a member of Organized Communities Against Deportation (OCAD), deployed masked agents to capture others reporting for planned appointments, and brutalized protestors and public officials rallying outside the ISAP office (a private GEO Group own  more

LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, June 6 [Category: Energy] -- The American Nuclear Society posted the following news: * * * Findings of the ANS Executive Order Expert Advisory Group * On May 23, President Donald Trump signed four Executive Orders (EOs) designed to "usher in a nuclear energy renaissance" by building on federal policies and programs and directing efficiencies in the licensing, siting, development, and deployment of advanced reactor technologies. In order to evaluate the specific pr  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following floor remarks on June 5, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. President refers to the presiding officer of the Senate at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. President, on a different topic, I want to say a few words about the tragic war in Gaza. There has been so much suffering, so much death, so much destruction. The Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023 and the taking of hostages, with some 20 or 30 s  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following floor remarks on June 5, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. President refers to the presiding officer of the Senate at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. President, on Tuesday, President Trump sent Congress proposed rescissions. A rescissions bill is a cut to already enacted and funded programs. Looking closely at those cuts that have been proposed by the administration, I would like to speak to them this   more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Statement from Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Rep. Mary Miller's Anti-Sikh and Anti-Muslim Remarks * WASHINGTON - Congressman Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement regarding Representative Mary Miller's comments (link is external), in which she said it was "deeply troubling" that a Sikh man, whom she initially misidentified as Muslim, led a prayer on the floor of the House. "I am app  more