U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi will chair the new House committee on China, and U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood was selected for the panel. The spy balloon isn't their focus, but it underscores the military, economic and technological threat from Beijing, Republicans and Democrats say.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Can we send Raja to China for a few years? That would be swell.