{"id":17329,"date":"2026-01-05T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/krishnamoorthi-steps-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-china-panel\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:16:49","slug":"krishnamoorthi-steps-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-china-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/krishnamoorthi-steps-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-china-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishnamoorthi steps down as top Democrat on House China panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Illinois Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/254656\" data-person-id=\"254656\">Raja Krishnamoorthi<\/a> is stepping down as the top Democrat on the select House committee on competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, according to a person granted anonymity to discuss the move ahead of a public announcement. <\/p>\n<p>Krishnamoorthi is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51180\" data-person-id=\"51180\">Dick Durbin<\/a>. The panel has been generally lauded as a bipartisan effort to investigate and analyze economic and political matters surrounding the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is stepping down as the top Democrat on the select House committee on competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, according to a person granted anonymity to discuss the move ahead of a public announcement. Krishnamoorthi is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Dick Durbin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}