Currently holds the office of U.S. House of Representatives - Illinois 8th Congressional District until January 3, 2025.
Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Illinois 8th Congressional District in 2024 Illinois General Election.
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Get StartedRaja believes that women have the right to make their own healthcare decisions in consultation with their doctors and without the interference of politicians. Learn more
The men and women who risk their lives to protect our country deserve our utmost gratitude and support. We must treat them with the same respect and devotion they have shown to our country. That requires a full, wide-ranging support system that ensures our veterans have access to education, good jobs, health care (including mental health services), and anything else they may need upon return to civilian life. It also means providing support for their spouses and loved ones. Learn more
Raja also supports turning President Obama’s 2012 executive order on veterans’ mental health care into law. Learn more
Raja supports a constitutional amendment to overturn the effects of Citizens United by stipulating that the free speech rights guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are only inherent to natural persons – not to corporations – and that spending unlimited money in elections is not the same as exercising free speech. Learn more
Aja supports common-sense gun laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands and reduce the epidemic of mass shootings that are occurring throughout the United States. Among the measures he supports are closing the “gun-show loophole” by extending background checks for gun purchases to gun shows; reinstating the expired federal ban on assault weapons; and improving the reporting system to help keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, convicted felons, and those with severe mental illnesses. Raja also supports allowing the government to fund research on gun deaths and gun safety, something that is presently forbidden. Learn more
I strongly support the Affordable Care Act and have voted consistently against Republican attempts to cripple or repeal it. Learn more
I also believe that Congress should end the current ban on the federal government’s ability to negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry for recipients of Medicare and Medicaid. Learn more
I believe that healthcare in this country should be a right and not a privilege and that we must continue to strive to attain universal coverage. Learn more
Raja rejects the un-American idea that whole classes of people should be barred from entering this country because of their ethnicity or religion. Learn more
Raja believes that Social Security and Medicare are sacred promises that we have made to our senior citizens. He will fight in Congress to protect those programs and help secure them for future generations. Learn more
Expand the federal child tax credit to help working families with the cost of raising children. Learn more
Raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour and link future increases to inflation. Learn more
Enact into law President Obama’s executive order that workers earning less than 50,000 automatically qualify for overtime pay. Learn more
Require paid maternity leave for all women in the workforce. Learn more
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