Janice Schakowsky

Over the past four decades, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards have been an important tool in improving fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Understanding the impact our emissions have on the atmosphere is particularly important for today's hearing.

Fortunately I think we have made great advances in auto safety as well as fuel efficiency.

Those of us serving on these subcommittees have responsibility to reject hollow arguments put forth to justify lower targets.

We now face a different and larger crisis, the threat of global climate change. I am not here to debate science. The argument is settled.

As has been mentioned, last month, I joined Ranking Members Eshoo and Pallone to request a hearing on updating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for the 21st century.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to join you today. I thank Ranking Member Pallone for yielding time to me.

However, consumers have more than financial concerns, and I'm just wondering if you could discuss the privacy concerns that robots have beyond the financial.

We need to make sure that today's workers are prepared for this transition and that we are training today's workers for tomorrow's manufacturing jobs.

If we want to continue in advanced technology then we certainly need to provide young girls and boys opportunities in science and technology.

Since November of last year, 200,000 Illinois women gained access to preventive health care services with no cost sharing including reproductive health care.

Over 475,000 Illinoisans have gained Medicaid of CHIP coverage since the first open enrollment period as a result of Illinois' decision to expand Medicaid.

During the third enrollment period 388,000 people from my state were able to gain coverage by enrolling in the health insurance marketplace.

In 2014, nearly 195,000 people in Illinois with Medicaid saved almost $180 million on prescription drugs because of the Affordable Care Act.

I look forward to the passage of H. Res. 835. I yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardenas), the cosponsor and coauthor of this resolution.

It is now my pleasure to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the cosponsor of this consumer-friendly legislation.

Well, as I said earlier, the BOTS Act is a positive step to improve the ticket market. Today we will advance this bill on a bipartisan basis, which is always good; but I certainly do hope we can work together on further changes to increase…

I have really focused for much of my public career, both in the Illinois legislature and now here, on improving senior citizens' access to health care.

So, today, we are continuing this Disrupter Series with healthcare apps.

The comments made yesterday were misleading and they are disrespectful to the American people who are benefiting from the coverage provided through the law.

This tells us all we need to know about the Republican Party's priorities.

I think we need to be serious about working together, stop these frivolous lawsuits, and get down to making this law the great law that it could be.

This law was passed to make health care about people, not about insurance companies.

I think this is simply disingenuous.