Quotes by Raja Krishnamoorthi - Page 2

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.
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Concern
Delegation
Different Ways
Illinois
Work Women Together
Positives
Work Together
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Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.
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Cruelty
Will More American
American Families
Bear
Brunt
Will American More
Devastating
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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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Common Ground
Differences
Middle Class
Solutions
Aside
Producing
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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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Interference
Address
Investigate
Manner
Restore
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Mail enables businesses to deliver vital services and products, including medication, and allows these same businesses to receive payments in a timely way.
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Mail
Medication
Timely
Deliver
Enables
Payments
Receive
Services
Vital
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I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.
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Bipartisan
Legislation
Looking Forward
Pursue
Move Forward
Working Families
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I am hopeful that both India and U.S.A. would be able to expand their counter-terror partnership through wider intelligence sharing and effective coordination.
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Coordination
Hopeful
Partnership
Effective
Expand
Sharing
Wider
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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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Packing
Rely
Insurance
Programs
Preserving
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In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.
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Private Sector
Small Business
Partisan
Political Agenda
Sector
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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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Attorney
Efficient
Proactive
Transparent
Assistant
Attorney General
Deputy
Responsive
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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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Flow
Middle Class
Tax Reform
Believe I Believe Stay
Struggling
Working Families
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When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.
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Food Stamps
Housing
Public Housing
Stamps
Unfortunately
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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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Divided
Fair Share
Good Things
Illinois
Things Happen
Receive
Row
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I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who've made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.
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Immigrants
Pledge
Contribute
Drop
Unrealistic
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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.
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Available
Casts
Data
Voters
Readily
Representative
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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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Begging
Cutting
Skilled Workers
Workers
Credits
Skilled
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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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Dysfunction
Special Interests
Treatment
Big Money
Due
Leads
Voices
Working Families
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I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.
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Starving
Further
Private Schools
Public Schools
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In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.
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Opponents
Political Opponents
Recognizing
Retaining
Both Parties
Divide
Succeeded
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Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.
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Every Night
Greatness
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As the son of legal immigrants to America who came from India, I support stronger border security for our nation as well as deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.
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Legal
Border Security
Committed
Immigrants
Stronger
Border
Crimes
Undocumented
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As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.
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Democrats
Drop
Pocketbook
Tuck
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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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Colleagues
Function
Investigating
Chair
Committee
Refuses
Undermined
Vital
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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.
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Blind
Blocked
Compromise
Essence
Partisanship
Weakness
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As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
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Improving
Innovative
Middle Class
Services
Small Businesses
Strongly
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So many of our businesses rely on green card holders - how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they'll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?
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Wedding
Green Card
Airport
Attract
Card
Detained
Relatives
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The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think about running for office.
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Barack
Historic
Hussein
Senator
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As the president of a cutting-edge research and development firm, I deal with the development of solutions to long-term national security and renewable energy problems every day and will bring this same perspective to Congress.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Firm
Long Term
National Security
Renewable Energy
Solutions
Renewable
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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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Education
College
Community
Community College
Diploma
High School
School
Secondary Education
Sufficient
University
Does
Career
High
Four-Year
Longer
Post
Secondary
Technical
Vocational
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When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.
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Discrimination
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Me Law People
Agencies
Alert
Encounter
Even Worse
Incident
Regardless
Urge
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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.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Counterintelligence
Vulnerability
Adversary
Compromised
Creates
Fundamental
Official
Render
Vital
Withheld
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We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.
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Enabling
Middle Class
Prescription Drugs
Social Security
Backs
Budget
Negotiate
Prescription
Seniors
Strengthen
We Cannot
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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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Pennsylvania
Align
Closely
Education Programs
Glenn
Industries
Introduced
Programs
Rep
Strengthen
Thompson
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I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.
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Assisting
Candidates
Friendly
Grassroots
Voting
Political Process
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One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.
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Federal Government
Funding
Innovation
Small Business
Sponsors
Agencies
Directly
Programs
Largest
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The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivotal that we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves.
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Agents
Disturbing
Interference
Pivotal
Possibility
Profound
Russia
Seriousness
Coordinated
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Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that alienated so many Americans.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Losing
November
Rhetoric
Trump
Vote
Wide
Alienated
Appeal
Avoid
Base
Broader
Divisive
Donald
Donald Trump
Effectively
Govern
Margin
Popular
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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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Construction
Crumbling
Fund
Infrastructure
Transportation
Badly
Bank
Candidate
District
Expand
Good-Paying
Governments
Local Governments
Proposed
Repair
Systems
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As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.
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Borders
Challenges
Grateful
Immigrants
Ongoing
Afforded
Aware
Family Great I Am
Tremendous
Nation
Confront
Essential
Immigrant
Opportunities
Respecting
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In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.
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Infrared
Pursue
Ran
Sells
Solar
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Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders - leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.
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Attorney
Contracts
Illinois
Suspects
Usual
Good Business Government
Attorney General
Bag
Unfortunately
Business Good Government
Holding
Steered
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The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Corn
Graduate Students
National Security
Graduate
Most Important Thing
Scientists
Seed
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Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.
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Administration
Following
Informing
National Security
Officials
Preventing
Procedures
Protected
Screening
Guaranteeing
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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.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Disabled
Immigrants
Notion
Family History Men
Asians
Catholics
Gays
Hindus
Jews
Latinos
Lesbians
Muslims
Refugees
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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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Border Patrol
Department
Discretion
Incidents
Officers
Visa
Airport
Border
Entrusted
Execute
Obtained
Patrol
Successfully
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Step one of the initial process of getting a non-immigrant visa is tough, renewing it is tough, and then transferring from the status of non-immigrant to immigrant or green card is tough. The only process which is easy is the last part of transferring from green card to citizenship, but getting there is quite a journey.
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Green Card
Visa
Card
Immigrant
Initial
Status
Transferring
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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.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Best Way
Fingers
Submit
Unemployed
Collective
Remind
Respectfully
Tie
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