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Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a Chief Deputy Whip and Co-Chair of the Seniors Task Force, was joined by Reps. Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) in reintroducing the Women's Pension Protection Act. This bill, which was introduced in the Senate by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), takes necessary and important steps to ensure that women are better prepared for retirement. After the bill's introduction, the lawmakers released the following statements:
“For more than 20 years, NAFTA has benefitted corporations and the ultra-wealthy in the United States, but has cost jobs, made middle-class American families poorer, and hollowed out large segments of a once vibrant Midwest economy. While the negotiators of this secret agreement claim it fixes at least some of those problems, many details remain to be resolved before we can be assured that workers and their families will be better off under NAFTA 2.0. We do however, know that health care consumers stand to lose.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowksy, a Chief Deputy Whip and the Senior Democrat on the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the Energy And Commerce Committee, released the following statement in response to Facebook’s latest security breach:
“Another massive data breach. Another empty apology from a CEO. Another 50 million users’ privacy irrevocably breached.
WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s passage of the Opioid Crisis Response Act in the House of Representatives, Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Raúl M.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky introduced H.R. 6903, the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2018. This bill calls for the full disclosure of all ingredients included in beauty and personal care products including fragrances. It also outright bans toxic ingredients, like carcinogens, in those products. After introducing the Safe Cosmetics Act, Rep. Schakowsky released the following statement:
Washington—Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) today released the following joint statement on Israel’s planned demolition of the West Bank village of Khan al-Ahmar:
Today Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Chief Deputy Whip, released the following statement on the Trump Administration's announced changes to the Public Charge Rule:
"President Trump and his Administration are not content with simply terrorizing undocumented immigrants and the communities they live in. Their latest anti-immigrant attack sets its sights on legal, taxpaying immigrants to our country. Shame on them.
Schakowsky, Chabot, and Engel Lead Letter to Pompeo on Reuters Journalists Imprisoned in Burma
Today, during a press conference in the lobby of Stroger Hospital in Chicago, Illinois Democrats unveiled a new report, issued by the Democratic staff on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which outlined the number of people in Cook County who are living with pre-existing conditions and others who are at risk of losing their health insurance coverage or being charged higher premiums due to the latest Republica
“The allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh are credible and disturbing. I applaud her courage for coming forward despite the chaos and frenzy that she will undoubtedly face because of it.