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Starting today, #ChildTaxCredit payments will begin hitting bank accounts and mailboxes of millions of American families. With the American Rescue Plan, we're delivering one of the most significant reductions in child poverty ever.
Today, I hosted a press conference on the day Child Tax Credit payments would begin. I was happy to join staff and families of Christopher House, an organization in my district that provides children and their parents with resources they need for success in education, work and life.
Lots of updates during this "recess" week. I talk about the #PeoplesResponseAct we introduced last week, and President Joe Biden's visit to the area.
EVANSTON – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, was joined by Congressman Adriano Espaillat and Congressman Mike Quigley in asking Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to immediately end three programs that create unnecessary burdens on local law enforcement. These controversial programs places unnecessary burdens on state and local law enforcement budgets and personnel. Local law enforcement leaders have opposed programs and attempts to make state and local departments extensions of federal enforcement efforts.
WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, issued the following statement upon passage of H.R. 7608, a domestic priorities and international assistance appropriations bill:
"I voted YES for this funding bill because it invests in the health and well-being of our nation's families and communities, and protects our nation's diplomatic and humanitarian priorities around the globe.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House passed two amendments offered by Representative Schakowsky to be included in H.R.6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
"I am pleased that the House voted to include two of my amendments in the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that will increase oversight of the Department of Defense (DOD) and its contractors.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the House Budget Committee, made the following statement after the Government Accountability Office issued their legal opinion on the actions surrounding the withholding of foreign aid to Ukraine:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two critical funding bills to keeping our government open and vital services operating. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip, voted NO on H.R. 1158 and voted YES on H.R. 1865. Schakowsky issued the following statement: