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Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement on President Trump’s State of the Union address:
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement on President Trump’s State of the Union address:
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement on attending the State of the Union and inviting Frank Lagunas, furloughed Trump Shutdown federal employee to serve as her State of the Union guest:
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement on her vote in favor of the Federal Civilian Workforce Pay Raise Fairness Act of 2019:
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Vern Buchanan introduced the Safeguard American Food Exports(SAFE) Act of 2019. This bipartisan legislation would permanently ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption in the United States as well prohibit the export of live horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses to be sold overseas.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement on the tenth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:
“It has been 10 years since President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a critical law that has helped lessen the gender pay gap. For too long, women have worked hard, often harder, than men only to be paid 80 cents on the man’s dollar and even less for women of color.
U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Marc Veasey (TX-33)and Brendan Boyle (PA-08) introduced thePatriot Employer Act,which would provide a tax credit to companies that provide fair wages and good benefits to workers. The Members released the following statement:
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day:
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement regarding the deal to temporarily end the partial government shutdown:
Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) introduced a resolution to designate January 25th, 2019,as Women’s Health Research Day. Their legislation aims to recognize the need to increase awareness of sex- and gender-based biomedical research, which the National Institutes of Health did not consider prior to 2016, the underrepresentation of women in past biomedical research and the importance of inclusive health research for women.