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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.

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, was joined by Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA) in introducing the FTC Whistleblower Act of 2021. The bill would protect whistleblowers who disclose wrongdoing at their current and former employers who fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Disclosure could include unlawful violations of consumer protection and anti-trust laws and regulations. This act would protect whistleblowers from retaliation and incentivize their reporting.