‘Peter Roskam’

Slashes SALT Deduction That Saves Illinois Families Thousands of Dollars Per Year Representatives Roskam and Hultgren just voted in favor of the Senate-passed budget that officially fast-tracks the Republican plan for a Middle Class Double Tax on hardworking families in order to give tax breaks to the rich and big corporations. Worse, Roskam and Hultgren […]

Rep. Peter Roskam will tell you all about the tax plan he wrote to give breaks to big corporations, just as long as you don’t ask him about how the Middle Class Double Tax is going to hammer homeowners and families in his own district. Just months after the Illinois legislature voted to increase income […]

Weeks after releasing his tax plan that benefits corporations, the wealthiest Americans, and his special interest donors, Rep. Peter Roskam still has no defense for how it will hike taxes on working families in his district. In an interview with WGN, Roskam uses D.C. talking points to dodge a question about whether Chicagoland families will […]

Today, in a recorded editorial board meeting with Crain’s Chicago Business, vulnerable Rep. Peter Roskam said he has no regrets when voting for the Republican Repeal & Ripoff health care bill, which has 8 percent support among Americans recently polled by the Kaiser Family Foundation. “Today, Peter Roskam doubled down on his heartless vote to […]

  Attempt to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics received widespread local coverage Congressional Republicans’ first day of the new Congress was marred by wall-to-wall coverage of their shady – and ultimately thwarted – attempt to gut the only independent House ethics watchdog. The bizarrely tone-deaf and ethically bankrupt move created shockwaves, hitting front pages […]