30 Facts About Raja Krishnamoorthi

Subramanian Raja Krishnamoorthi is an American attorney and politician serving as the US representative for since 2017.

Raja Krishnamoorthi was born in 1973 into a Tamil Hindu family in New Delhi, India.

Raja Krishnamoorthi's family moved to Buffalo, New York, when he was three months old so that his father could attend graduate school.

Raja Krishnamoorthi attended public schools in Peoria and was a valedictorian of his graduating class at Richwoods High School.

Raja Krishnamoorthi then received a Juris Doctor with honors from Harvard Law School.

Raja Krishnamoorthi served as an issues director for Obama's 2004 campaign for the United States Senate and aided in the development of Obama's 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address.

Raja Krishnamoorthi served as deputy state treasurer for Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias from 2007 to 2009 and then as vice-chairman of the Illinois Innovation Council.

Raja Krishnamoorthi was the president of high-tech small businesses in the Chicago area until he resigned before entering Congress to eliminate any conflicts of interest.

In 2010, Raja Krishnamoorthi ran for the Democratic Party nomination for Illinois Comptroller.

When Duckworth ran for the US Senate in 2016, Raja Krishnamoorthi again declared his candidacy for the US House of Representatives.

Raja Krishnamoorthi was reelected to a fourth term, defeating the Republican nominee by a 14-point margin.

In May 2022, Raja Krishnamoorthi joined Hoffman Estates Mayor McLeod, WINGS President and CEO Rebecca Darr, and Chief of Police Kathryn Cawley in a ceremony recognizing the Village's formal acceptance of a $150,000 Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Raja Krishnamoorthi secured for the Hoffman Estates Domestic Violence Project.

In July 2017, Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced the Presidential Pardon Transparency Act, which would require that all presidential pardons be disclosed to the public within three days of being granted.

In October 2017, Raja Krishnamoorthi questioned the director of the National Background Investigations Bureau about the number of mistakes made in Senior Presidential Advisor Jared Kushner's security clearance during a hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Raja Krishnamoorthi arrived at O'Hare within hours to speak to immigration officials but was told they were unavailable.

Raja Krishnamoorthi authored the KREMLIN Act, which passed the House with bipartisan support in March 2019.

Raja Krishnamoorthi authored the Seeding Enterprises in the Microelectronics Industry Act and the Geospatial Partnership for Security Act.

The Oversight and Intelligence Committees were both tasked with investigating the accusations against Trump, and as a member of the Intelligence Committee, Raja Krishnamoorthi took part in televised public hearings, questioning various witnesses brought before the committee.

Time magazine called Raja Krishnamoorthi the vaping industry's "biggest enemy in DC" In July 2019, as chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, he held hearings investigating the industry's marketing practices, especially those allegedly aimed at children.

Raja Krishnamoorthi has authored or co-sponsored several pieces of legislation aimed at curbing e-cigarette use, including the Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020, which passed the House in February 2020.

Raja Krishnamoorthi successfully advocated increased funding for youth e-cigarette prevention programs in the combined omnibus spending bill and COVID-19 relief package that was signed into law on December 27,2020.

Raja Krishnamoorthi led an investigation into the FDA's failure to properly regulate serological antibody tests during the pandemic's early phase.

In 2021, Raja Krishnamoorthi was appointed to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

In October 2020, Raja Krishnamoorthi co-signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemning Azerbaijan's offensive operations against the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Raja Krishnamoorthi successfully advocated for a provision in the FY2021 omnibus spending bill, which was signed into law on December 27,2020, requiring the NHTSA to issue federal regulations for side-impact crash tests for booster seats.

In September 2020, Raja Krishnamoorthi opened an investigation into the sale and lease of government vehicles with active safety recalls by the General Services Administration, publicly calling on the GSA to cease the sale and lease of such vehicles.

In November 2020, Raja Krishnamoorthi called for the investigation of Senator David Perdue's stock trades involving a defense contractor while he was on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In May 2020, Raja Krishnamoorthi had called for members of Congress to be banned from trading individual stocks in response to allegations of insider trading against Senator Richard Burr and others.

In May 2022, Raja Krishnamoorthi canceled a fundraiser "out of an abundance of caution" after being informed lobbyists had sent unauthorized correspondence and outreach for the event, referencing the ongoing investigation.

Raja Krishnamoorthi is a practising Hindu and is married to Priya, who is a doctor.