SUPD Presents: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois' 8th District
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi was elected to Congress in 2016 and is now in his fourth term representing Illinois’ 8th District, which includes Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs as well as the 41st ward of the city. He serves as Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, making him the first South Asian American in history to lead a Congressional Committee. He also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability as a member of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs. The Congressman is a Vice-Chair of the Equality Caucus and Co-Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Immigration Task Force. In addition, he is the founder and Chairman of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus to End the Youth Vaping Epidemic and the bipartisan Solar Caucus.
Representative Krishnamoorthi is the child of immigrants and was raised in Peoria, Illinois. He attended public schools in Peoria and was a valedictorian of his high school class. Scholarships and student loans allowed him to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in mechanical engineering and a certificate from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He then graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge before practicing law in Chicago.
Representative Krishnamoorthi pursued public service while practicing law and was appointed by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan as a Special Assistant Attorney General to help start the state’s Public Integrity Unit created to root out corruption in Illinois. As a member of the Illinois Housing Development Authority, the Congressman chaired the Audit Committee, helping to provide thousands of low and moderate-income families across the state with affordable housing. Congressman Krishnamoorthi also served as Illinois Deputy Treasurer, where he oversaw the state's technology venture capital fund and helped make programs such as the state's unclaimed property program leaner and more efficient.
After his time in the Illinois Treasurer’s Office, Representative Krishnamoorthi returned to the private sector, serving as president of research-oriented small businesses developing technology in the national security and renewable energy industries. Representative Krishnamoorthi also served as the Vice-Chair of the Illinois Innovation Council and co-founded InSPIRE, a non-profit that provides inner-city students and veterans with training in solar technology.
The Congressman resides with his wife Priya, a physician, and 3 children in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there my friends, thank you very much for pressing play on this episode of standup, |
| 0:09.0 | you know, when a congressman's office reaches out to you and says, hey, would you like to |
| 0:14.2 | talk to congressman? |
| 0:15.9 | You say, yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you? |
| 0:17.8 | I actually wouldn't care who was if Jim Jordan's office reached out to me, I'd say yes. |
| 0:22.7 | But I was much happier to talk to a congressman who's actually getting really important work |
| 0:27.6 | done and have a good faith thoughtful conversation with him. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, we got a really good one. |
| 0:33.9 | I am not as cynical as some of you are about politicians and politics. |
| 0:37.7 | I feel like I understand how it works and what it takes. |
| 0:40.8 | And so when you find people that are actually doing good things, I think it's good to talk |
| 0:45.2 | to them about it. |
| 0:46.2 | So Congressman Rasha, Krishna Murphy is my guest today. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm really excited to talk to him. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, I was really excited to talk to him. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm taping the intro after the conversation as I always do. |
| 0:57.6 | He was actually elected to congress in 2016. |
| 1:00.4 | He's now in his fourth term, but he was elected the same night Donald Trump was. |
| 1:04.6 | And so that's where I started my conversation with him. |
| 1:06.5 | He represents Illinois. |
| 1:07.9 | His eighth district includes Chicago's West and Northwest suburbs, as well as the 41st |
| 1:13.5 | ward of the city serves as the ranking member of the select committee on the strategic |
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