Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) released the following statement after Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced the Democratic Members who will serve on the partisan Committee to Attack Women’s Health, including that Representative Schakowsky will serve as Ranking Member on the Committee:

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. Schakowsky issued the following statement in response:

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), released the following statement after voting for the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015:

“I am pleased that House Republicans and Democrats could come together on a budget that ensures that we pay our bills and keep the government open. I made explicitly clear that I would not support any budget agreement that cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits, and this budget contains no such toxic cuts. In addition, this budget ensures that Medicare Part B recipients won’t see a drastic and unaffordable $55 increase in their premiums.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) released a letter signed by 69 other Members to House Leadership refusing to sign any budget deal that includes cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Because of the commitment of these Members the budget agreement that was introduced this week does not contain harmful benefit cuts. Below is the joint release issued by Representatives Schakowsky and Gallego vowing to protect these vital programs against future efforts to cut benefits:

WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), released the following statement after sending a letter to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT-03), Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, urging him to launch an investigation into how video footage provided to the committee in response to a subpoena by the Center for Medical Progress was illegally leaked to the news agency GotNews.com:

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) released the following statement after voting against the latest effort to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act and attack women’s health:

“Yet again, House Republicans are attacking women’s health and trying to take away affordable health care from millions of Americans. Today’s vote marked the 61st time House Republicans have voted to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act and amazingly, in the same bill, they also defunded Planned Parenthood, a trusted provider of women’s health services for over 99 years.

Evanston, IL – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky released the following statement after the recent acts of violence in Israel and the West Bank:

“I join with many in the 9th Congressional District and around the world in expressing my deep concern for recent events in Israel and the West Bank. My heart goes out to those who have been affected by the violence.

Today, Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Doris Matsui (CA-06) and Patrick Murphy (FL-18), sponsors of H. Res 393 released the following statement after the Social Security Administration announced that there would not be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security beneficiaries in 2016: