Consumer Protection
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reached a consent order with Takata over the Japanese part supplier’s defective airbags that have caused at least eight deaths and at least 100 serious injuries. The settlement includes the largest-ever fine levied by NHTSA – $200 million. It also prohibits Takata from entering into any new contracts after Oct. 31 to build airbag inflators with ammonium nitrate and a desiccant – the chemical components suspected to cause the violent airbag explosions that necessitated the recalls. Rep.
Washington, DC– Rep. Jan Schakowsky issued the following statement after the Senate trade agreement package failed to pass the House of Representatives:
“Today the House voted to derail ‘fast track’ authority that would not only be used to push through a highly-flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement but that would prevent Congress from amending trade pacts for the next six years.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowksy, a Chief Deputy Whip and the Senior Democrat on the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the Energy And Commerce Committee, released the following statement in response to Facebook’s latest security breach:
“Another massive data breach. Another empty apology from a CEO. Another 50 million users’ privacy irrevocably breached.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip, a senior member of the House Budget Committee, and a Co-Chair of the House Democratic Task Force on Aging and Families, released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5376, President Biden's Build Back Better Act, by a vote of 220-213:
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (DCCP) Subcommittee, released the following statement after Equifax CEO Richard Smith resigned in response to the massive data breach that compromised the personal information of 143 million Americans. Richard Smith will be testifying before the DCCP Subcommittee next week.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released early estimates that in 2021, traffic fatalities reached a 16-year high:
EVANSTON, IL – Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chairwoman of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, issued the following statement in response to the successful amendment in the United Kingdom's House of Lords to the proposed US-UK Trade bill:
“I am absolutely appalled at how United Airlines treated one of their customers flying out of Chicago this weekend. The use of extreme force featured in the video circulating on social media today is shocking and unacceptable.
WASHINGTON D.C. (November 16, 2012) — Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has introduced H.Res. 810, a resolution urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to continue its cooperation with airports across the United States to implement noise mitigation plans.