Janice Schakowsky
The Public Record
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.
we are doing it in order to grow animals faster or, you know, to promote growth and not to promote health.
I am pleased to offer my testimony today in support of your bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009.
some vulnerabilities are thrust upon us as a Nation, and others, like the one we are discussing, are really self-imposed.
In my home State in California, we have been buffeted in recent years by outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli.
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.
The use of these antibiotics in farm animals do, I think, endanger our health, and there is evidence to say that.
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.
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.
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.
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.





