Raja Krishnamoorthi

“Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.”

“I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.”

“It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.”

“I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.”

“The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.”

“In my experience, union leaders are respected by their members.”

“Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.”

“Voters should know what their representative is doing, what votes he casts, and who he pays, so my office will make this data readily available in a way which is easy to understand.”

“Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.”

“For too long, people in Washington and Congress point fingers at each other, even as millions of middle-class Americans remain unemployed and our economy continues to sputter. They must realize that we are all in this together, and I respectfully submit that the best way to remind Congress of this is to tie their pay to their collective results.”

“In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.”

“Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.”

“If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.”

“Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.”

“We have numerous mandirs, gurudwaras, and mosques in my Congressional district and all across the U.S.”

“One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.”

“While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.”

“There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.”

“When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.”

“Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.”