Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, following last week's House vote to provide additional support for small businesses, hospitals, health care workers and all Americans, House Democrats' Task Force on Aging and Families announced a set of principles guiding its efforts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The blueprint builds on the Task Force's previously announced Older Americans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive framework to keep Older Americans and their families healthy, safe and financially secure.
EVANSTON – Amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip, and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced bicameral legislation to provide a historic investment in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and Nurse Corps programs to cover the graduate education costs of approximately 300,000 clinicians in order to help address existing health workforce shortages throughout our health care system.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, today spoke on the House Floor in support of, and voted to pass, H.R. 266, the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act. She also voted to create a Select Subcommittee on Oversight of the Coronavirus Crisis. She issued the following statement after passage of the legislation today:
EVANSTON, IL – Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day:
"Today on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we take a moment to recognize one of the darkest moments in history. Six million Jews were systematically and purposefully murdered at the hands of Nazi Germany. I hope all my constituents will take a moment to honor their memories and join me in an effort to ‘Never Forget'.
EVANSTON, IL – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip, made the following statement on news that a unity government in Israel had been formed:
EVANSTON, IL - Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, released the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they will require nursing homes to report COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), patients, and families and that they will make those data public:
WASHINGTON, DC – Last night, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, led 77 of her colleagues in sending a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma asking them to work with states, localities, and private labs to immediately collect and publicly report facility-level data on the number of long-term care residents affected by the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including cases and fatalities.
EVANSTON, IL - Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, and Representatives Bobby L. Rush (IL-01), Danny K. Davis (IL-07), Mike Quigley (IL-05), Robin Kelly (IL-02), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Sean Casten (IL-06), and Jesús G. "Chuy" García (IL-04) released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that it will not strengthen the particulate matter national air quality standard:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Energy & Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), and Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Chair Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) held a press call to outline key principles to ensure any COVID-19 drug will be accessible and affordable for all people.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, and Congressman Peter King (R-NY) introduced the bipartisan Advancing Connectivity during the Coronavirus to Ensure Support for Seniors (ACCESS) Act. Many older Americans and individuals with disabilities rely on nursing homes to survive, and the COVID-19 pandemic has severely isolated nursing home residents from their family members and health care providers who often are essential caregivers and advocates.