U.S. House of Representatives

The war might be continuing, not just because of incompetence, but because the president has found a way to make money.

Sergeant Ed Ramsey lived a life of public service – joining the Army to defend our nation, then going on to serve his community in his local post office for nearly three decades. During those years, his unstinting kindness made such an…

Do you stand by your words?

But that’s exactly the issue—there’s no choice in forced arbitration. It was a ‘take it or leave it’ [approach] for the employees before this new law was enacted.

These are hospitals that are serving clearly rural areas and not wealthy people. They are struggling farm families and struggling rural families.

Here’s what I’m proposing—it is modest, by federal standards, but it is important. I think we ought to make a commitment in this Farm Bill to rural hospitals.

What do the hospitals tell you when you go home? … Senator Duckworth and I sent letters to 129 rural hospitals in Illinois and said, how are you doing? More than half of them said, we are in trouble—serious trouble.

Let’s put farm families back in the Farm Bill. And what I’m talking about specifically are not only the profits and losses in farm operations, but the burdens that farm families are carrying.

I beg my young students in Illinois to start there, and counselors to do their job and discourage kids from getting involved with these for-profit schools.

I… warned them, be careful not to let your students be lured into these for-profit colleges and universities.

That’s life changing news for nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers, who will receive $23 billion in relief after being misled and defrauded by for-profit colleges.

What you don’t know is that although only eight percent of [American college students] go to for-profit colleges and universities, 30 percent of all student loan defaults are the students from these same schools.

It is unconscionable that ATF, whose mission is to protect the public from violent gun crime, would even begin to consider regulatory changes that could result in such deadly outcomes.

To upend longstanding federal gun violence prevention regulations in a manner that contravenes commonsense federal firearms laws like the GCA and the Brady Act based on an inadequate justification and incomplete cost-benefit analysis…

With these proposed revisions, ATF is rewriting the regulations that have been used and relied on for decades to help keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who are not allowed to have them for mental health reasons under 18 U.S.C…

This paperwork requirement of people in low-income categories is an onerous responsibility… as long as they are trying in good faith to comply with the law, I don’t think we should deny them the $6 a day.

We [Democrats] want to support the Farm Bill—I certainly do. But I want to make sure that I’m fair to my State and fair to the people who are receiving SNAP benefits who are being disadvantaged.

I have seen a few farm bills… The decision was made in the 1960s to blend together food and nutrition programs [to the Farm Bill]… That winning coalition has paid off ever since. We need it again and it has to be part of this SNAP…

It is incumbent upon DOE to take a wide view of and responsibility for the health of our nation’s energy systems.

Your partisan attacks on Illinois are just as likely to raise prices or extend repair timelines in Wisconsin, Indiana, or Iowa the next time they face a tornado or flood.

The grants you terminated would have assisted in the deployment of these technologies and created hundreds of jobs.

As if this brazen politicization of DOE’s grant-making process were not bad enough, these cancellations also took aim at our constituents’ wallets.

Birthright citizenship is the law of the land, which the Supreme Court just upheld in June. But Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant agenda will never miss a chance to sow doubt and fear in immigrant communities. The Trump…

I am pleased to have helped co-lead this timely legislation and encourage the House to take it up immediately when they return from their August recess.