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By Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) for CNBC.
Drug companies are making record profits and at the same time raising the prices of life-saving prescription drugs more and more every day. What's worse, drug companies have no legal obligation to justify or explain the massive spikes in drug prices.
After multiple attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act without proposing anything to take its place, House Republicans say that they are finally poised to present their ideas. It's been six years of attacks with no alternatives. If a proposal is finally presented next month, I have one simple question: Will my Republican colleagues propose real improvements or will they take us backwards in time?
After multiple attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act without proposing anything to take its place, House Republicans say that they are finally are poised to present their ideas. It's been six years of attacks with no alternatives. If a proposal is finally presented next month, I have one simple question: Will my Republican colleagues propose real improvements or will they take us backwards in time?
January 12th, 2016
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jan-schakowsky/republicans-start-2016-by_b_8962316.html
The Daily Herald
October 8, 2013
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20131008/news/710089721/
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Evanston Democrat, was arrested Tuesday for blocking a street near the National Mall at an immigration reform rally in Washington, her spokeswoman said.
Schakowsky was with other demonstrators as part of a civil disobedience effort calling for immigration reform, spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said.
The American people deserve to know the potential fallout of the fiscal cliff battle
- Roll Call | By Rep. Jan Schakowsky
- Dec. 3, 2012, 7:19 p.m.
There has been a lot of talk lately about how to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. Now it's time to get specific – not just about numbers but about how the proposals would affect real people.
By Rep. Jan Schakowsky
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/10/24/the-sham-of-simpson-bowles/
Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson deserve some kind of medal for creating the widely held perception that their plan for reducing the deficit and debt is anything other than a bad proposal.