Janice Schakowsky

Consumer protection is my passion and what really first drew me to public life.

I wonder if you could describe in--perhaps more specifically what we see, many of us, including providers, as a domestic gag rule preventing physicians and providers from giving the full story of the full range of health care services.

I want to know, regarding abortion, how this affects organizations like Planned Parenthood.

I think its funding actually should be increased. Right now it is--in the budget it is $280 million. I think $400 million would be better.

We have not really addressed the number one cause of death on America's roadways--drunk driving.

Alcohol was the largest contributor to crashes.

More than 10,000 deaths, about 30 percent of all fatal crashes, are caused by drunk driving each year.

As the Consumer Protection Subcommittee, we are committed to ensuring the safety of the American people.

The Lautenberg Act blocked EPA from finding a chemical safe if it poses an unreasonable risk for a vulnerable subpopulation such as workers.

So is this, again, the problem of the dual agencies and conflicting or at least misunderstood jurisdiction?

It seems to me that if EPA is relying on personal protective equipment to address the risk to workers, it should impose requirements for the use of such equipment.

Are the workers required to know about this as well or is it just the person that is in charge implementing the rule?

Ensuring that new chemicals are safe is essential to addressing regrettable replacements where one toxic chemical is being phased out just to replace it by another analogous and equally toxic chemical.

Oversight of the Lautenberg Act is long overdue. I am very concerned about--that implementation of the act has veered from congressional intent, putting vulnerable populations at work.

I do support all the bills that have been suggested today.

In the 114th Congress I first introduced the FAIR Drug Pricing Act, which would require pharmaceutical manufacturers to notify HHS...

The budget before us cuts Medicaid by $1.5 trillion before really, in my view, cannibalizing it by converting it into a block grant.

This budget envisions really, I think, a radically different America than I believe most Americans can and want to envision.

One out of five American children is considered food insecure. That is scandalous, I think.

They see this, I see this as State-sponsored child abuse, I would say even State-sponsored kidnapping, children being taken away from their parents, hundreds, maybe thousands of children.

People, American people are horrified by this.

Stop separating children is one idea.

Oh, yes, those terrible entitlements that are so precious to millions and millions, the majority of American families.

The female share of computer science degrees has actually dropped from 28 percent to 18 percent between 1993 and 2016.

Just 31 percent of the employees at Facebook are women, and that's also true at Apple.