Businessman

As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

I've led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

In my experience, union leaders are respected by their members.

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

Illinois is becoming more diverse, more tolerant, and even more green.

Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that's a good thing.

Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.