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Janice Schakowsky

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Janice D. Schakowsky is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 9th congressional district since 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for various progressive issues, including healthcare reform, women's rights, and consumer protection. Schakowsky has played a significant role in shaping policies related to social justice and economic equality throughout her tenure in Congress.

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Feb 28, 2020

I thank the chairman for yielding. This certainly is an issue of consumer protection. I rise in support of this bill so that we can take action to end the youth tobacco epidemic before it claims any more lives. Prohibiting flavors that…

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Feb 26, 2020

Your budget proposal would cut funding from the toxic risk review and prevention by more than 20 percent.

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Feb 26, 2020

It can never be said too many times that our environment is in crisis and communities across the country are feeling the effect.

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Feb 25, 2020

I find it incomprehensible that you are asking for a molehill when what we really need is a mountain of support here.

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Feb 25, 2020

Last week, 45 of my colleagues and I sent a letter to President Trump, and what we were talking about is, are we going to be guaranteed affordable treatments or vaccines that are developed?

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Feb 25, 2020

We are concerned that private pharmaceutical companies may end up having a role in this and raising the cost beyond the point that people could well afford it.

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Feb 13, 2020

Every single constitution in the whole world written since 1959, including Afghanistan, for example, has the equivalent of the equal rights amendment, but the United States of America does not. Though my colleagues on the other side of the…

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Feb 11, 2020

So in 2016, Candidate Donald Trump said, 'I was the first and only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.'

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Feb 11, 2020

We will not go back no matter what is happening in states around the country.

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Feb 11, 2020

In fact, every budget President Trump has proposed has cut critical funding for our public schools.

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Feb 11, 2020

Both ACOG, as we have talked about, and the American Medical Association have taken positions against many of these laws because they are not based on medicine and they are not based on good care of patients.

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Feb 11, 2020

You are saying those numbers are--don't exist?

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Feb 11, 2020

I know that when I stepped out of the room, Mr. Gianforte allowed Ms. Collett to make incorrect claims about the opinions of medical professionals on the importance of abortion access.

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Feb 11, 2020

This is a pro-choice House of Representatives and all of the polling suggests this is a pro-choice nation.

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Feb 11, 2020

I just have to say how much I resent when you say if you really wanted to care about women, you would do something about prenatal care or you would do something about maternal mortality.

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Feb 11, 2020

This is about the women who deserve comprehensive reproductive healthcare, all of them.

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Feb 11, 2020

Abortion is healthcare, and healthcare is a human right.

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Feb 11, 2020

Protecting access to abortion care isn't the beginning of women having abortions. But it is the end of women dying from abortions.

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Feb 11, 2020

We will not be touching your Social Security or Medicare in fiscal 2021 budget?

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Feb 11, 2020

I am proud to be part of the House Democratic majority that will invest in America's health care, environment, and education for years to come.

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Feb 11, 2020

President--I mean we totally disagree on that, as do all the advocates for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid who are professionals, as well.

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Feb 5, 2020

I want to definitely thank my colleague from Michigan and also my colleague from Massachusetts for being here to support workers. I believe that it is the labor movement that brought us the middle class. The height was really after World…

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Feb 5, 2020

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 2382, the USPS Fairness Act. The United States Postal Service is an essential part of American life. It was established more than 231 years ago…

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Feb 5, 2020

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act's reauthorization. As has been mentioned before, I think, the Great Lakes represent 21 percent of the…

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