By Raja Krishnamoorthi An alarming 27.5% of high school students are using e-cigarettes today — a 135% increase over the past two years. Nicotine is a dangerously addictive substance that harms adolescent brain development. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the brain develops until age 25, and nicotine exposure harms the part […]
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By Raja Krishnamoorthi and Darin LaHood As Members of Congress on opposite sides of the aisle, there is no shortage of issues on which we disagree. In many ways, the differences between the districts we represent — one in suburban Chicago, the other downstate in central and west-central Illinois — are a microcosm of the […]
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Illinois Democrat brings unique background, portfolio to tough task Raja Krishnamoorthi never stops. It’s a Tuesday afternoon in mid-October and Congress is back to work for the first time in more than two weeks. But as a member of two committees tasked with advancing the House’s impeachment inquiry, the Illinois Democrat spent most of the […]
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FDA Faces Mounting Pressure to Release Final E-cigarette Flavor Policy The FDA is under mounting pressure to finalize its policy on flavored e-cigarettes. The chairman of the House committee on oversight and reform’s subcommittee on economic and consumer policy sent a letter to the FDA Tuesday demanding action. In the letter; Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi says, […]
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In a letter, a lawmaker is urging the US Food and Drug Administration to issue its compliance policy that would clear the market of unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes. The letter follows President Donald Trump’s September 11 announcement that the FDA would be putting out “some very strong recommendations” regarding the use of flavored e-cigarettes in “a […]
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Five members of Congress now celebrate the Indian festival of lights with feasts and family gatherings. But some of them think the version on the Hill needs work. WASHINGTON — For Representative Pramila Jayapal, there was no better party during her childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, than the one that took place on Diwali, the Indian […]
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Solving America’s immigration problems can’t be oversimplified as a choice between building walls and having open borders, or granting amnesty to nearly 11 million people living in the country illegally and not accepting more refugees, says U.S. Rep Raja Krishnamoorthi. “A country without borders is not a country,” the Schaumburg Democrat recently told the Daily […]
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U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who sits on panels overseeing the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, said Monday the president’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and allow Turkey to invade was not “American” and that he fears “the worst” for the U.S. Kurdish allies left behind. Speaking to reporters in Chicago, the Democratic […]
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Most Americans support universal background checks and red flag laws, says Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy. Watch the Interview Here
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House Democrats are threatening to subpoena Juul for not complying with its investigation into the youth vaping epidemic. Juul, the top e-cigarette company in the U.S., has not produced documents that the House asked for more than three months ago, said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic […]
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