If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re on the menu: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi

New York, November 5

With an rising variety of folks from the Indian-American neighborhood taking part in a major position in US elections, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi mentioned there’s a realisation amongst them that “if you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re on the menu” that’s the reason they’re voting and working for workplace in massive numbers.

“We are starting to realise that old adage that ‘if you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re on the menu,” Krishnamoorthi mentioned throughout a digital post-election political evaluation hosted by main nonprofit Indian diaspora organisation ‘Indiaspora.

“I think the Indian-Americans realise that neither they nor their families nor their priorities can afford to be on the menu so they’re pulling up the proverbial seat to the table. And that means voting, but also running for office.”

“And so I encourage people to do more of that. Just please don’t run in my district against me,” he mentioned with fun.

Amid elevated divisiveness throughout the US, Krishnamoorthi, who gained re-election to the US House of Representatives for a 3rd time period, mentioned there’s want for a “boldest common denominator” of crushing the coronavirus and repairing the economic system to unite Americans.

“I think that we have to find the boldest common denominator that unites us and work on those priorities first before tackling some of the other issues which obviously deserve attention but might provoke a little more disagreement in terms of the way forward,” Krishnamoorthi mentioned.

Krishnamoorthi was responding to a query by Indiaspora’s founder M R Rangaswami on how he hopes to unite his constituents amid the rising divisiveness being witnessed throughout the nation.

Krishnamoorthi mentioned the “boldest common denominator that unites all of us” is crushing the virus and growing a secure and efficient vaccine that’s distributed to everybody in addition to repairing the economic system and “helping struggling businesses and families get through this thing at the same time that we’re dealing with the health crisis”.           

Krishnamoorthi burdened that with a purpose to take care of the virus, there’s have to take the politicians out of managing organisations just like the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Health & Human Services.

“We need to put the scientists and the health care professionals back in charge,” he mentioned.

On the financial entrance, he mentioned that proper after the election, lawmakers will take up the problem of a stimulus package deal once more and hopefully get it previous the purpose line.

Responding to a query on what his priorities can be going ahead, Krishnamoorthi mentioned he’s the Oversight Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, with direct jurisdiction of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

“Those agencies have become heavily politicised,” he mentioned including {that a} huge precedence for him can be to depoliticise these businesses in order that they’ll do their job and get America out of this pandemic as quickly as potential.

The second huge precedence is to stabilise the economic system and assist industries which were decimated by the pandemic, together with airways, lodge and hospitality, restaurant and tourism.

“They need help now more than ever because we don’t want a situation where we basically allow them to die even as we’re trying to save the patient so to speak on the operating table, which is the American economy.” PTI