The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
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.
As the president of a cutting-edge research and development firm, I deal with the development of solutions to long-term national security and renewable energy problems every day and will bring this same perspective to Congress.
Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that's a good thing.
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.
If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.
I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.
Illinois is becoming more diverse, more tolerant, and even more green.
My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.
Step one of the initial process of getting a non-immigrant visa is tough, renewing it is tough, and then transferring from the status of non-immigrant to immigrant or green card is tough. The only process which is easy is the last part of transferring from green card to citizenship, but getting there is quite a journey.
As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders - leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.
There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.
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.
If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.
Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.
Partisan politics is not my passion.
Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.
In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.