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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.

Quotes by year · 1999–20261,763 total · peak 2019 (263)
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Jul 10, 2018

I don't know. Whoever wants to answer that but----

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Jul 10, 2018

We need to do something that's in advance. We have got to stop something now.

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Jul 10, 2018

Impaired driving risks the lives not only of the impaired driver but everyone else as well.

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Jun 21, 2018

The Horseracing Integrity Act introduced by Representatives Barr and Tonko is a critical piece of legislation.

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Jun 21, 2018

I think it is necessary to pass this legislation.

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Jun 21, 2018

So I think at least Bob Baffert is saying it is a performance-enhancing drug.

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Jun 21, 2018

Most notably, it places a ban on race-day medication, which I feel is the most important change to the legislation.

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Jun 21, 2018

I was the lead cosponsor of similar legislation in 2013 with Representative Pitts that addressed some of the same concerns with doping and horseracing.

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Jun 21, 2018

I have also been a longtime supporter of animal welfare protections.

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Jun 19, 2018

We need to examine how many of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents and forced into custody of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Settlement.

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Jun 19, 2018

Ripping young children away from their parents in order to extort money for a wall is both evil and inhumane.

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Jun 19, 2018

I believe that time and our Nation would be better served by speaking up and speaking out against the Trump administration's mean-spirited, racist, and immoral new policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.

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Jun 19, 2018

Now is the time for Congress to grow a spine and reclaim our constitutional duty as an equal and separate branch of Government ready and willing and able to serve as a check to a President who has seemingly gone mad.

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Jun 19, 2018

The silence by so many Republican Members of Congress in light of so many misguided, asinine, and un-American decisions by this administration is both shameful and telling.

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Jun 14, 2018

I'm particularly concerned about the improper and overuse of antibiotics that's driving the growth of antibiotic resistance around the world.

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Jun 14, 2018

In the United States, somewhere between 20 and 50 percent of all antibiotic prescriptions in hospitals are either unnecessary or inappropriate.

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Jun 14, 2018

Thank you. My time is up, but I hope that in addition to development, that we're looking at prevention here as well.

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Jun 13, 2018

Companies may claim that consumers like targeted ads, and some may.

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Jun 13, 2018

Ads are ubiquitous, often irritating, as you browse the internet.

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Jun 13, 2018

The use of targeted digital ads can have serious consequences.

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Jun 13, 2018

Americans are realizing how little control they have over their own information.

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Jun 5, 2018

I think what I am hearing you say and I would agree that EIS acts as a pipeline for the next generation of health care leaders and contributes to a strong workforce.

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Jun 5, 2018

I am proud I've introduced H.R. 5998, which is the Securing Experts to Control, Understand, and Respond to Emergencies--or the SECURE Act--to support and build a robust disaster preparedness workforce.

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Jun 5, 2018

One absolutely essentially part of disaster preparedness is having the workforce in place to respond to public health emergencies.

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Jun 5, 2018

I think it is really critical that we continue and strengthen the EIS program.

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