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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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Jul 12, 2009

Well, on this battlefield, it seems as if we are disarming ourselves.

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Jul 12, 2009

we are doing it in order to grow animals faster or, you know, to promote growth and not to promote health.

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Jul 12, 2009

I am pleased to offer my testimony today in support of your bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009.

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Jul 12, 2009

some vulnerabilities are thrust upon us as a Nation, and others, like the one we are discussing, are really self-imposed.

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Jul 12, 2009

In my home State in California, we have been buffeted in recent years by outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli.

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Jul 12, 2009

I think the nightmare scenario is that something that perhaps when we were young would have been a routine dose of penicillin or some other antibiotic suddenly is impotent.

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Jul 12, 2009

The use of these antibiotics in farm animals do, I think, endanger our health, and there is evidence to say that.

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Mar 18, 2009

Finally, SAVE's top legislative priority is passing the Student Voter Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Jan Schakowsky, Steven LaTourette of Ohio, and Dick Durbin of Illinois.

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Mar 18, 2009

First, we support the Count Every Vote Act, which was a comprehensive election reform piece of legislation introduced by the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones.

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Mar 7, 2007

No more chances, no more wavers, no phony certifications, no more spending billions of dollars to send our children into the meat grinder that is Iraq.

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Sep 6, 2006

BP, a company that raked in over $7 billion in profits in the second quarter of this year alone, neglected to conduct even remotely adequate or responsible maintenance.

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Oct 25, 1999

I am certain that his legend will live on forever.

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