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Washington – Today, U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) introduced “Anna's Law.” This legislation would expand trauma-informed training for law enforcement personnel related to sexual assault cases.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced that a total of $1,959,752 they secured through Fiscal Year 2023 Congressionally Directed Spending and Community Project requests will be sent by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the City of Chicago for lead service line replacement at daycare facilities throughout Chicago.

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Sean Casten (IL-06), and Jerrold Nadler (NY-12) led 51 colleagues in a letter urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fully enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and protect safe access to reproductive health care facilities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) led 17 Members of Congress in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concern over the status of the case of murdered Honduran Indigenous rights defender Berta Cáceres. The legislators urged Secretary Blinken to closely monitor the pending appeals and convey the State Department's support for further investigations into Cáceres' murder.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and sent a letter to two of the largest trade associations representing the nursing home industry — the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and LeadingAge — slamming them for opposing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) final rule that would, for the first time, set a national floor for minimum nurse staffing requirements in Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes, improving quality of care. 

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), U.S. Representative Jesús "Chuy" García (IL-04), and U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) led ten of their Illinois colleagues in writing to Amazon demanding the company refrain from union-busting as delivery drivers in Skokie, Illinois seek to unionize.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) led 41 colleagues in filing a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to support the Juliana v. United States youth plaintiffs – 11 of whom are Oregonians. Juliana v. United States is a landmark lawsuit brought by 21 young Americans against the U.S. Government for contributing to the climate crisis. The lawmakers urged the Ninth Circuit to grant these young plaintiffs’ request for en banc review, in which a full panel of judges would reconsider their lawsuit, so they can proceed to trial and stop the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to silence them.