Press Releases
“This is a sad day for public employees and all of us who rely on them to provide us with the services we need, from keeping our air and water clean to teaching our children to protecting public health. Janus started with Governor Rauner but it was quickly embraced by all those whose mission is to take away the freedoms of working women and men.
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” – Donald J. Trump, December 5th, 2015
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky issued the following statement after House Republicans managed to pass their partisan, dangerous “Farm Bill”. H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act or “Farm Bill” of 2018, had already failed to pass the House floor once before. Republicans persisted in their attempt to devastate America’s anti-hunger programs:
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Chief Deputy Whip, released the following statement after President Trump signed an order to end family separation by instituting indefinite family detention:
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky led 31 of her House Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to American Airlines Group CEO Doug Parker regarding American Airlines’ contract negotiations with passenger service agents at Envoy and Piedmont. The members wrote to express their hope that the negotiations will result in contracts that support fair, living wages for the passenger service agents. Recently, American Airlines announced plans to buy back $2 billion worth of company stock.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a member of the House Budget Committee and a Chief Deputy Whip, released the following statement on the House GOP’s FY19 budget resolution, which was unveiled earlier today:
“The Trump Administration’s policy of ripping families apart by tearing immigrant children as young as 5 months old from their parents represents the institutionalization of child abuse. I am appalled and outraged by these actions and have been working to overturn the Administration’s policy.
“It is estimated that 5 million older adults each year suffer from neglect, abuse or exploitation. Today, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, is a time to focus attention on those – mostly women – who are at risk. They are our parents and our grandparents, our friends and our neighbors. They live in our country and around the world. They are suffering from physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, income theft and manipulation, isolation, and lack of needed care and services. They need not just our attention but our action.
“It is heartening to see President Trump engaging in diplomacy instead of hurling childish insults at a nuclear-armed dictator via Twitter. This meeting was a great photo op both for an American President seeking to prove his deal-making skills and for a despotic tyrant looking to appear powerful on the world stage.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Chief Deputy Whip, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Husted v. APRI, which rolls back voting rights by upholding the State of Ohio’s policy of purging infrequent voters from voter rolls: