Press Releases
September 18, 2023
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Anna G. Eshoo (CA-16) and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, legislation that prohibits advertising networks and facilitators from using personal data to target advertisements. The bill also prohibits advertisers from targeting ads based on protected class information such as race, gender, and religion, and personal data purchased from data brokers. The bill allows targeting based on broad location connected to a recognizable place, such as a municipality, and explicitly allows contextual advertising, which is advertising based on the content a user is engaging with.
September 12, 2023
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Chief Deputy Whip and member of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, celebrated House passage of H.Res.492, her bipartisan resolution condemning Iran’s government for persecuting the Iranian Baha’i community, the largest religious minority in Iran with a membership of more than 300,000 people.
September 11, 2023
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), and U.S. Representative Eric Sorensen (IL-17) led nine of their Illinois Congressional delegation colleagues in a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Danny Werfel in support of building a new Taxpayer Correspondence print and mail management facility in Bloomington, Illinois.
September 11, 2023
EVANSTON – Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Chief Deputy Whip and the Ranking Member of the Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement marking 22 years since the September 11th attacks:
September 4, 2023
EVANSTON – Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Chief Deputy Whip and the Ranking Member of the Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement in observance of Labor Day:
“Every Labor Day, we come together to honor the millions of American workers that keep our economy strong. It is their hard work, talent, and productivity that make our country prosperous, and they deserve to be celebrated today and every day.
September 1, 2023
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) a Chief Deputy Whip and Co-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, released the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s announcement of new actions on nursing home safety:
August 29, 2023
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Chief Deputy Whip, Ranking Member of the Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Co-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, celebrated the Biden administration announcement of the first ten drugs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will negotiate lower prices for using its new authorities under the Inflation Reduction Act. Schakowsky attended the White House ceremony marking this historic day and released the following statement:
August 22, 2023
WASHINGTON - Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Subcommittee Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Meta and other online marketplaces today requesting information regarding efforts to end the sale of banned and recalled hazardous products on their platforms.
August 15, 2023
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), and Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07) led 16 of their colleagues in a letter urging United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to ensure that the U.S. Embassy in Honduras is continually engaging the Honduran government to combat corruption while protecting the environmentalists in the Bajo Aguan region from future violence and attacks, and ensuring that their demands are fully and fairly attended to. This includes the definitive cancelation of the Los Pinares mining licenses in the Carlos Escaleras Botaderos Mountain National Park.
August 7, 2023
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) introduced the Working for Immigrant Safety and Empowerment (WISE) Act to protect immigrant survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and gender-based violence. The bill would ensure that immigrants have access to protections intended by the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Trafficking Victim Protection Act (TVPA), and other federal and state laws. The bill would also ensure survivors pursuing relief are not detained or deported before their applications are fully adjudicated.
Issues:ImmigrationHuman Rights