Raja Leads Bipartisan Coalition Urging Federal Agency To Authorize Continued Development Of Western Access To O'Hare

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi hosted a town hall meeting Saturday
at Villa Park’s Willowbrook High School, welcoming his constituents and
answering their questions. Over the course of the ninety-minute meeting,
Rep. Krishnamoorthi responded to unscreened questions running the gamut
from the flaws of a new Republican health care proposal, to the looming
possibility of a government shutdown, to the Congressman’s work on
behalf of environmental protection and completing the economically
essential Elgin O’Hare Western Access project. The town hall was
broadcast on Facebook Live for those unable to attend.

“The challenges and division our country faces are significant, but
there is still room to come together,” Congressman Krishnamoorthi said
after the meeting. “Last month, even as my Republican colleagues and I
vehemently disagreed on their health care plan, we were able to come
together to work to reduce prescription drug prices.”

“I think the biggest challenge our country faces is growing and
strengthening the middle class. This has become my life's work. We need
to help more Americans join the middle class and make sure the families
who are already in it, stay there. To support those working families, we
need to create more good-paying jobs through investing in career
training and infrastructure. We need to make sure that men and women
earn equal pay for equal work. We need to expand paid family leave
and access to quality affordable child care for everyone in the
workforce, and we need to keep Medicare and Social Security strong so
that growing older does not mean living in poverty.”

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi represents the 8th District of Illinois, which
includes Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs. He serves on the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and on the Committee on
Education and the Workforce. In addition, Raja serves as the ranking
member, and top Democrat, on the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits,
and Administrative Rules. Krishnamoorthi served as an Illinois Special
Assistant Attorney General in the public corruption unit and as Illinois
Deputy Treasurer before becoming president of small businesses in the
Chicago area focused on the national security and renewable energy
sectors. He and his wife, Priya, a physician, live in Schaumburg with
their two sons and baby daughter.