U.S. House Candidate Profile

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi

DemocraticU.S. HouseIllinois08

Public Research Summary

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi is a Democrat candidate for U.S. House in IL-08 in the 2026 election cycle.

Source Posture

OppIntell has 1296 public claims associated with this profile, including 1296 valid citations and 1296 primary-source references.

Official Receipts

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KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. Raja voted Nay on On Agreeing to the Resolution (HRES5) (House roll call 4, 2025-01-03).

Source: voteview.com retrieved Jul 7, 2026

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KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. Raja voted Yea on On Motion to Commit with Instructions (HRES5) (House roll call 3, 2025-01-03).

Source: voteview.com retrieved Jul 7, 2026

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KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. Raja voted Nay on On Ordering the Previous Question (HRES5) (House roll call 2, 2025-01-03).

Source: voteview.com retrieved Jul 7, 2026

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KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. Raja voted Nay on Election of the Speaker (House roll call 1, 2025-01-03).

Source: voteview.com retrieved Jul 7, 2026

Sourced Research

Auto-published from 36 verified claims; every line links to its original public source.

Background

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi served as U.S. Representative from IL-08 (Democrat) from 2025-01-03 to 2027-01-03.

Source: unitedstates.github.io retrieved May 13, 2026

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi served as U.S. Representative from IL-08 (Democrat) from 2021-01-03 to 2023-01-03.

Source: unitedstates.github.io retrieved May 13, 2026

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi served as U.S. Representative from IL-08 (Democrat) from 2023-01-03 to 2025-01-03.

Source: unitedstates.github.io retrieved May 13, 2026

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi's gender is recorded as M in the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset.

Source: unitedstates.github.io retrieved May 13, 2026

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi served as U.S. Representative from IL-08 (Democrat) from 2019-01-03 to 2021-01-03.

Source: unitedstates.github.io retrieved May 13, 2026

Positions

[Wikipedia: Immigration and Trump administration's travel ban] On January 28, 2017, Trump's executive order placing restrictions on people entering the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries caused 18 travelers arriving at O'Hare International Airport to be detained and questioned by federal officers, including a family of legal permanen…

Source: en.wikipedia.org retrieved May 13, 2026

Statements

- Toxic heavy metals have no place in baby food. Years ago, a congressional investigation I helped lead found that some manufacturers knowingly sold products containing dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. That's why I introduced the bipartisan Baby Food Safety

Source: x.com retrieved Jun 30, 2026

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