Delia Ramirez

Delia Ramirez has represented Illinois's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2023. Before Congress, she served as an Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House. Earlier, she was Executive Director of the Center for Changing Lives, a nonprofit, and held roles at Common Cause IL and the Community Renewal Society.^{1, 2, 3}

In September 2026, she introduced the Reimagining Safety Act, which proposes dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and redirecting their funding to social services.⁴ She co-sponsors the Medicare for All Act and advocates for a $19 per hour federal minimum wage.² She has also introduced the Tenants' Right to Organize Act and supports the Green New Deal for Public Housing.² She has cosponsored legislation in Congress to expand background checks and ban assault-style weapons.⁵ She voted to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and to direct the removal of U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran.⁶

Her official website says she passed legislation in the state legislature expanding Medicaid coverage to Illinois seniors regardless of immigration status and helped secure over $450 million for affordable housing.³ She also secured $250 million for community-based violence prevention programs.⁵ She introduced the COVID-19 Emergency Housing Act, which established protections for people struggling to pay rent and mortgages during the pandemic.⁷ In Congress, she has proposed earmarks including $13 million for a road project in Elk Grove Village and $3 million for a community center in Belmont Cragin.⁸