Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
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As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.
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In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.
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I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.
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The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.
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A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.
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There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.
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Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.
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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.
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When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee's ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.
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Partisan politics is not my passion.
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Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.
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When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.
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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.
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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
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We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.
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Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.
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Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.
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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.
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I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.
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In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.
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I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.
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In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.
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Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.
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China is eating our lunch with regard to renewable energy.