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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a senior member of the House Oversight Committee, announced that he will introduce a resolution declaring that Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex trafficker and longtime co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, must not receive a presidential pardon, commutation, or any other form of clemency.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), joined Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI), Congressman Dusty Johnson (R-SD), and Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) to reintroduce the Securing Infrastructure from Adversaries Act, legislation to prohibit the U.S. Department of Transportation from using digital 3-D mapping technology, LiDAR. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party issued the following statement concerning a Financial Times report that the Trump Administration blocked the transit of Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te through the United States. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a joint letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick condemning the Trump Administration’s use of semiconductor export controls as negotiating leverage in trade talks with the People’s Republic of China.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, ahead of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party’s hearing titled “United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies,” Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) sent two letters to senior administration officials demanding stronger action to confront the CCP’s weaponization of global critical mineral supply chains.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a hearing titled “United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies.”  The hearing examined how the Chinese Communist Party uses economic pressure to undermine democratic governments and what the United States and its allies can do to push back.

The following witnesses provided testimony:

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth expressing strong support for the AUKUS partnership and calling for continued prioritization and resourcing of the agreement in the face of the CCP’s growing military aggression.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent a letter urging FBI Director Kash Patel to end the agency's ongoing certification of products from Chinese military-linked companies that could be used to spy on Americans or strengthen the People's Republic of China (PRC)'s Orwellian surveillance state.