Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, along with U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09), Robin Kelly (D-IL-02), Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), and Marie Newman (D-IL-03) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has allocated $1.5 million in funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to the Chicago Shoreline Storm Damage Reduction Project.
WASHINGTON—Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, voted to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, a historic bill that takes key provisions from the Senate negotiated Freedom to Vote Act and H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. She issued the following statement after the vote:
WASHINGTON— Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced new steps to eliminate deadly hazards from residential elevators:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Congressman. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) led a bicameral letterto Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick urging the agency to use its authority to protect consumers from unfairly high energy costs.
WASHINGTON – This week, Congressional International Workers' Rights Caucus leaders Reps. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Andy Levin (MI-09), and Raul Grijalva (AZ-03) applaud the passage of H.R. 1155, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, by a vote of 428-1, to combat labor and human rights abuses committed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government in Xinjiang. They issued the following joint statement:
WASHINGTON— Last week, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined health care workers and federal partners at Howard Brown Health's Broadway Youth Center to spotlight the clinic's efforts to enroll LGBTQI+ youth in affordable health insurance.
WASHINGTON— Today, Congresswoman Schakowsky released the following statement after voting against S. 1605, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022:
WASHINGTON—Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, and Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, reintroduced the Future Generations Protection Act of 2021. This bill would help ensure a rapid shift away from fossil fuel to clean renewable energy.