I've met many talented people with disabilities in my life. Some are blind who finished the best universities and became coders and...

As a small business owner, I get it. Costs have increased because of inflation affecting many persons in this District and across the...

Illinois became the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana. There is no reason to hold marijuana illegal under Federal Law....

Illinois has its own DREAM Act. It is now time to bring the DREAM Act to the national level. This will ensure that 1 million immigrant...

Crime is real. Living in Chicago it is common to hear gunshots and you can always confirm what is happening on the Citizens' app. Some of...

Women earn just 77 cents for every 1 dollar a man makes. Gender inequality is very important, but it is also about sustaining the...

Public 4-year colleges, community colleges, and technical schools should be free with both the Federal and State Governments sharing the...

With a federal hourly wage of $7.25 per hour working 40 hours a week, a single parent makes $15,080 which is below the poverty threshold....

It should not be about "access to care" it should be "guaranteed care." Even after the Affordable Care Act, over 27 million Americans...

As Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), "Like most rights, the right secured by the...

The electoral college that chooses the President was an institution created as a compromise to accommodate states which relied on slave...

I believe that the only effective way to really get money out of politics is to change attitudes and make a moral case against money...

Climate change is one of the greatest risks to our citizens' lives, health, and wages. Our nation's economy, infrastructure, food...

We must respect our elders. We have around 20% of seniors that are living on less than $13,500 a year. I call for expanding and extending...

Our infrastructure plan must accommodate new technologies of the day. I believe the new infrastructure plan needs to accommodate both...

Whether you "didn't like that war," there are American citizens that risked their lives to fight in our wars. Veterans need to be taken...

There are federal laws protecting people from discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and disability, but there are no such federal...