Judy Chu

My bill will serve as a bipartisan starting point for efforts to reverse this trend and lower our deficits in a responsible, common sense way that protects the middle class people of Illinois and our nation.

Here we are just days away from the catastrophe that we've known about for months, just days away from a self-inflicted wound to our economy, our credibility, and the American people. The sequester, these automatic budget cuts, will…

Last night, President Obama challenged all of us to come together to improve our country's fiscal health today and for generations to come. Automatic budget cuts, or sequestration, was never intended to be good fiscal policy. It was never…

We certainly would. We would love some legislative help on that.

If unscrupulous employers are getting away with this, then this can of course undermine our whole system here.

Immigrant workers in my district regularly face exploitation at the hands of their employers.

There is a 5-year ban on benefits for legal, permanent residents, so they cannot just come in and get the health benefits.

I took a congressional bipartisan trip to the border because I wanted to see for myself what was going on down there.

The Border Patrol has nearly doubled the number of its agents from 2004 to 2012.

We have poured billions of dollars into immigration enforcement along the border.

Earlier this week, our country lost a valiant war hero and one of the greatest statesmen of our time with the passing of Senator Daniel K. Inouye. Senator Inouye was an inspirational leader and a true American patriot in every sense of the…

Twenty children ages 6 and 7 went to school last Friday to learn, to play, to take their first steps into this world. What happened to them and six brave teachers determined to protect them is horrific and unimaginable. Our hearts break…

This Friday, an unimaginable horror happened. The most innocent amongst us, 20 beautiful children, ages 6 and 7, were gunned down in cold blood, and six adults died trying to save these children's lives. My heart breaks for these families…

Sequestration wasn't written to be good fiscal policy. It was never intended to be policy, period. These automatic cuts would deeply hurt our environment. This Congress has already tried to roll back our strongest environmental laws. Now…

At the end of what Republicans consider to be a grueling work week consisting of 2\1/2\ whole days, Republicans are heading home once again to take the next 2 months off. The Republican-led ``Do-Nothing Congress'' was in session for a…

I am a strong supporter of the Clean Air Act of 1970, and the benefits of this Act have far exceeded the costs associated with it by a factor of 30 to 1.

I agree with you that sequestration is not a good policy, and in fact, I voted against the Budget Control Act, which engineered it.

We know that in too many states and districts across the country, students with the greatest needs are being taught by teachers with little or no training, including those enrolled in alternative route teacher preparation programs. That's…

if we extend all the Bush tax cuts, it will increase our debt by $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years

that is why I support President Obama's tax plan.

I want to express my disappointment with today's hearing.

It's been 11 years since blue skies over New York were blackened with soot, 11 years since the Pentagon sustained its only attack in history, and 11 years since the heroism of our countrymen over a quiet field in Pennsylvania. Today, we…

Few things are as sacred as the right to vote. Generations have fought, bled, and died so that you and I can have a voice in our democracy. This is why we must guard against measures that take this away, like the Chinese Exclusion Act of…

the current system doesn't work. The current system relies on individual compliance to pay their use tax.

we must pass legislation such as the Marketplace Equity Act, of which I am a cosponsor.