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Alexi is focused on talking to Chicagoans about the issues they care about — making Chicago a safer more affordable place to live.

I will continue to oppose arbitrary and illegal actions by the Trump administration and will use all the tools at my disposal to fight unlawful orders.

I am proud to have secured this legal victory protecting some of our most crucial social service programs.

Schools have a responsibility to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for every student.

Our rail workers serve an integral role in our state’s economy, keeping our transit systems in top shape so they can deliver for riders. The federal government can do its part to support our union workers and our transit systems by pushing…

For years, this investment in research at NIH has been worthwhile. This proposal to transfer one third of the agency’s [NIAID] budget on infectious diseases is a mistake.

Let’s be honest about what this is: a move to siphon funds away from the nation’s premier medical research agency, which struggles to fund lifesaving research, to bankroll the Pentagon, the most heavily funded agency in our government.

The agreement sets up a path for the Department of Defense and the NIH to collaborate on chemical and biological defense research and development. That’s a good thing, isn’t it? Of course it is. But who is going to pay for it?

We currently are understaffed when it comes to air traffic controllers. They are working six days a week on the most stressful job. Give them the pay raise that we promised and do it in a timely fashion.

Later this afternoon, I’ll take an airplane ride from Washington to Chicago… Once again, as I’ve done thousands of times, I will entrust my safety and my future and my survival to a competent air crew, as well as the air traffic…

I will join in supporting Senator Curtis’ request of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Corruption at the highest levels of our government should never be tolerated.

Children should not be at risk from lead poisoning in their own home. We have to do more to address this health hazard before it harms more kids.

President Trump has a chance to secure the release of these detainees who have already suffered so much, and I hope he will similarly make this request of Xi during his visit.

The meeting between the leaders of our two countries is important and timely. Both nations have a great deal to discuss, including areas of shared concern and disagreement.

I urge all my colleagues to speak out against this ban and the President’s continued assault on free press.

This ban is unconstitutional retaliation for factual reporting.

President Trump has done more to undermine, belittle, and attack the free and open press than any President in modern history.