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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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Mar 28, 2023

Do you think that collective bargaining would be helpful for student-athletes?

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Mar 28, 2023

I am nervous now. OK. I am watching. I am moving actually a little away from you.

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Mar 28, 2023

However, huge disparities in--still exist between athletes in various colleges. So more--absolutely more needs to be done.

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Mar 28, 2023

I supported that. Northwestern employed the same anti-union tactics that we have seen among giant corporations like Starbucks and Amazon.

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Mar 28, 2023

I want to tip my hat to our colleague, Representative Trahan, who is one of those, and I am sure there are others among our--among our Members.

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Mar 28, 2023

Unfortunately, most of my--our Republican colleagues voted against the CHIPS and Science Act.

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Mar 28, 2023

The CHIPS and Science Act is exactly what I think that we need.

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Mar 22, 2023

If TikTok chose not to take the sensitive--this sensitive information that you don't need for a transaction and support our comprehensive privacy bill, that would be--that would be very helpful.

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Mar 22, 2023

I really don't want to go by that standard, particularly, but that TikTok's in-app browser surveilled everything from Americans, including passwords and credit card numbers, et cetera.

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Mar 22, 2023

China opposes the sale of TikTok because it would involve exporting China's technology.

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Mar 22, 2023

I think that it is so critical that the Federal infrastructure programs maximize the creation of good union jobs.

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Feb 28, 2023

First of all, let me just say how cheered I am by the consensus that we have. You know, we have got a practitioner, we have got a not-for-profit, we have got government. We have got, it seems, Republicans and Democrats, so let's move…

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Feb 28, 2023

Our adolescents, our kids are the most vulnerable. Our teenagers, we have to make sure that we are protecting them.

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Feb 28, 2023

It is time--it is time, and the time has really passed, I think, for us to do a data privacy law.

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Feb 28, 2023

I am really looking forward, as you said in your beginning remarks, that we can do this together, that we can go forward.

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Feb 6, 2023

Drill, baby, drill is what Big Oil and Big Gas wants right now.

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Feb 2, 2023

I stand before my colleagues as a proud Jew and a proud friend and colleague of Ilhan Omar. I don't need any of you to defend me against anti-Semitism. My friend, Ilhan Omar, and I have worked together on the values that I treasure as an…

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Feb 2, 2023

I think most people see that this is really fake and phony, and that what we have seen over and over, from the Republicans, advocating, for violence, advocating for insurrection.

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Feb 2, 2023

Oh, I don't think there's any question that a woman of color, a Muslim woman, that they don't want her on the committee.

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Feb 2, 2023

The hypocrisy is just overwhelming. I mean, this is a person, who had advocated violence, was talking about Jewish space lasers that were causing fires in California.

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Feb 2, 2023

I don't need any of you to defend me against anti-Semitism. My friend, Ilhan Omar, we have worked together, to the values that I treasure, as an American Jew, and that she treasures, as an American member of the -- Islamic woman, the only…

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Jan 31, 2023

And I think on this subcommittee we are so proud that we were able to get almost unanimous support on both sides of the aisle to pass it out of committee.

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Jan 31, 2023

As we move forward on autonomous vehicles, I think privacy is going to be a big issue.

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Jan 31, 2023

Now is the time for us to come together.

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Jan 31, 2023

I am hoping and looking forward to as a priority to try and move that.

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