RABB, Christopher M., “Chris,” a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; B.A., Yale College, 1992; M.S., organizational dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, 2006; fellow, Demos, German Marshall Fund and the Poynter Institute; legislative aide, United States Senate; trainer, White House Conference on Small Business; author; adjunct professor, Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University (2012-2016); faculty, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 2017 term; reelected to the House for 4 more consecutive terms.

Pennsylvania House Archives — Christopher M. Rabb biography

Chris Rabb earned a bachelor's degree from Yale College in 1992 and a master's degree in organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

Chris has served on the faculty at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business. He previously worked as an adjunct professor at Temple University's Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management and as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.

MEET CHRIS RABB

First elected in 2016, Rep. Chris Rabb (PA-200) is a 5-term state representative in the largest full-time state legislature in the U.S. He proudly represents a majority Black, mixed income legislative district of nearly 70,000 people across 4 neighborhoods in northwest Philadelphia.

Chris Rabb for Congress

Chris currently serves as a Pennsylvania state representative for District 200. He was first elected in 2016 and is in his fifth term.

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Fully Funded Education
Our country’s education system is in shambles. School buildings filled with lead and asbestos, overcrowded classrooms, and billionaire-backed competition for tight school funding have all undermined public school education.

A truly universal child care system for kids from birth to age five, an equitably funded K-12 public school system, and truly free public college and job training programs will help ensure ongoing education access and opportunity for all.

Chris Rabb For Congress — Platform

Supports universal child care through age five, equitable K-12 school funding, and free public college and job-training programs.

- Supports universal child care through age five, equitable K-12 school funding, and free public college and job-training programs.

Education

Asked what they would do in Washington, D.C., to make it more affordable for residents of the district, Rabb argued that stagnant wages are at the heart of the problem and called for sweeping labor reforms. “We need a living wage for all,” Rabb said, pointing to legislation he introduced in the statehouse that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, eliminate the tipped wage and eventually tie wages to inflation.

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Universal basic income and a living wage for all will help tackle the affordability crisis, but we must also create direct public services, including national grocery stores, free high-speed public transit, and high-speed gigabit broadband for every household.

Advocates for a $15 minimum wage, eliminating the tipped wage, and eventually indexing wages to inflation.

Supports universal basic income, a living wage, and public services including national grocery stores, free high-speed transit, and gigabit-speed internet for households.

- Advocates for a $15 minimum wage, eliminating the tipped wage, and eventually indexing wages to inflation.
- Supports universal basic income, a living wage, and public services including national grocery stores, free high-speed transit, and gigabit-speed internet for households.

Economy

Rabb framed health care as an economic justice issue.

“We absolutely need ‘Medicare for All’,” Rabb said. “Universal health care should be a human right. The only reason we don’t have it is we do not possess the political will to make it so. People thought that Obamacare was a flight of fancy. We made that happen.”

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Medicare For All,

Protecting Reproductive Freedom

Supports Medicare for All and says universal health care should be a human right.

Supports protecting reproductive freedom.

- Supports Medicare for All and says universal health care should be a human right.
- Supports protecting reproductive freedom.

Healthcare

The campaign platform lists “Publicly Fund Elections and Fix Rigged Election Maps” among its democracy priorities.

A transformational record is the ideas advanced and the movements represented. Bills serve two vital purposes: changing or creating law, and sparking critical public conversations that shift what is politically possible.

Rep. Rabb has dedicated his career to introducing bold, necessary legislation — from ending the practice of charging children as adults and opening Pennsylvania's anti-democratic closed primary system, to fighting corporate monopolization of public news media.

Chris Rabb for Congress — Legislative Record

Supports publicly funded elections and redistricting reform, which the campaign describes as fixing “Rigged Election Maps.”

As a state representative, introduced legislation to open Pennsylvania’s closed primary system.

- Supports publicly funded elections and redistricting reform, which the campaign describes as fixing “Rigged Election Maps.”
- As a state representative, introduced legislation to open Pennsylvania’s closed primary system.

Voting & Elections

The campaign platform lists “Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps” among its immigration-policy priorities.

We must stop funding violations of human rights. The genocide in Gaza must end. The genocide in the Sudan must end. Every person deserves to be safe, no matter where their home is. Every state’s right to exist obligates it to extend equal rights to all people.

Every President in modern history has avoided Congressional oversight while conducting bombing campaigns and military expeditions abroad. Congress is supposed to act as a check and balance on Presidential war-making authority, but has failed to live up to its responsibility year after year. We must immediately reduce the U.S. military footprint abroad and invest in addressing the root causes of systemic violence across the world.

Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and dismantling what the campaign calls “Immigrant Concentration Camps.”

Calls for ending U.S. funding of human-rights violations and says violence in Gaza and Sudan must end.

Calls for immediately reducing the U.S. military presence abroad and addressing the root causes of systemic violence.

- Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and dismantling what the campaign calls “Immigrant Concentration Camps.”
- Calls for ending U.S. funding of human-rights violations and says violence in Gaza and Sudan must end.
- Calls for immediately reducing the U.S. military presence abroad and addressing the root causes of systemic violence.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Climate Crisis
As we continue to face the increasing impacts of climate change, we need action now. Decarbonizing our economy is not just good for the environment and our health and safety, it will also strengthen economic opportunity for so many of our most vulnerable communities. Passing a strong climate agenda that includes a Civil Climate Corps will help create millions of good-paying jobs and ensure a strong and sustainable transition to renewable energy for every community.

Rep. Rabb introduced legislation to move Pennsylvania to 100% renewable energy by 2050, authored the bill to end ICE collaboration in Pennsylvania in 2017, and introduced legislation to establish a living minimum wage and end the inequitable tipped minimum wage loophole.

Rabb has previously introduced and plans to reintroduce the following environmentally focused legislation: Establishing a per-ton fee on greenhouse gas emissions for the state’s biggest corporate polluters, which would place a tax on carbon emissions and use the revenue to provide assistance to low-income customers, support the transition of schools and businesses to more efficient and clean energy, provide job training to workers displaced from fossil fuel jobs, and invest in growing the green energy workforce.

Rabb highlights environmental sustainability legislation during Earth Week

Supports a climate agenda including a Civil Climate Corps and a transition to renewable energy in every community.

As a state representative, introduced legislation to move Pennsylvania to 100% renewable energy by 2050.

Plans to reintroduce a fee on major corporate greenhouse-gas emissions to fund clean-energy assistance, worker training, and green workforce development.

- Supports a climate agenda including a Civil Climate Corps and a transition to renewable energy in every community.
- As a state representative, introduced legislation to move Pennsylvania to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
- Plans to reintroduce a fee on major corporate greenhouse-gas emissions to fund clean-energy assistance, worker training, and green workforce development.

Energy & the Environment

The campaign platform lists “Abolish the Death Penalty and Death By Incarceration” among its safer-communities priorities.

Supporting Safer Communities
Real safety comes from strong communities, not over-policing or over-prosecuting. We must reduce violence by investing in housing, education, good jobs, and mental health care – the true foundations of stability.

He authored a bill to establish a statewide police misconduct database, which became law following his collaboration with Rep. Summer Lee and others in a historic 2020 Capitol action demanding accountability in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others.

Supports abolishing the death penalty and life-without-parole sentences, which the campaign calls “Death By Incarceration.”

Prioritizes reducing violence through investments in housing, education, jobs, and mental health care rather than excessive policing or prosecution.

As a state representative, authored legislation establishing a statewide police-misconduct database that became law.

- Supports abolishing the death penalty and life-without-parole sentences, which the campaign calls “Death By Incarceration.”
- Prioritizes reducing violence through investments in housing, education, jobs, and mental health care rather than excessive policing or prosecution.
- As a state representative, authored legislation establishing a statewide police-misconduct database that became law.

Public Safety

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Chris Rabb

- Supports universal basic income, a living wage, and public services including national grocery stores, free high-speed transit, and gigabit-speed internet for households.

- Supports protecting reproductive freedom.

- Prioritizes reducing violence through investments in housing, education, jobs, and mental health care rather than excessive policing or prosecution.
- As a state representative, authored legislation establishing a statewide police-misconduct database that became law.

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