Women's Health

WASHINGTON - On Friday, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García (IL-04), a member of the Congressional Labor Caucus, led 26 of their colleagues in a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz seeking clarification on the company’s new policy reimbursing workers for travel expenses related to abortions.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Diana DeGette (CO-01), and Sara Jacobs (CA-51) led 31 House Democrats in a letter to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) uphold protections for private health information related to reproductive care. This action follows the June 2025 decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Purl v. Department of Health and Human Services, vacating most provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Ranking Member of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Wednesday reintroduced the Safer Beauty Bill Package with her colleagues, Reps. Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Doris Matsui (CA-07), and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07). The bill package includes four separate bills that offer progressive updates to an increasingly outdated set of federal cosmetics laws. This package builds upon the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA), which passed under President Joe Biden and expanded FDA oversight to include the regulation of the cosmetics industry, including mandatory recall authority, adverse event reporting, and requiring facility registration, and more.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-13), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), led a group of 76 Members of Congress

WASHINGTON - U.S Representative Jan Schakowsky, Chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus Providers and Clinics Task Force, Reps. Barbara Lee and Diana DeGette, Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus Co-Chairs, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus Abortion Rights and Access Task Force, led a group of 163 members in reintroducing the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Healthcare (EACH) Act, bold legislation to guarantee abortion coverage regardless a patient’s health insurance.

WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and member of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, reintroduced the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), which is bipartisan and bicameral legislation to ensure combating gender-based violence around the world remains a top diplomatic and development priority for the United States.