Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 19, 1973

All in all, Trumpcare is a bad plan for older Americans.

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Losing access to quality and comprehensive coverage, including for prescription drugs, would be devastating to older Americans.

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

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Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

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

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In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

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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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Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

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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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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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Our best path to economic growth and global competitiveness is to invest in our people - not to provide huge new tax breaks to special interests.

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Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for the higher-paid skilled workers they need.

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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.

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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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Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

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America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion.

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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

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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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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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Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that's a good thing.

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