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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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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

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 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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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

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

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

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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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

the current discussion on the origin of COVID-19 ushered in, and I quote, 'ill-informed condemnation of virology.'

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Jan 31, 2023

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. The Freedom for Health Care Workers Act. Really? Freedom? Freedom from what? We know that vaccine mandates are absolutely not new, and healthcare workers are often required to get vaccinated…

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Jan 31, 2023

I really look forward to continuing to do this.

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Jan 31, 2023

I want to congratulate you on maintaining our jurisdiction.

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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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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

I'm just concerned that, in the conversations that are around the potential risks of certain research, that it has created--that there's been these myths around virologists and their research.

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Jan 31, 2023

I have a number of colleagues who study these viruses, these very viruses that may cause the next pandemic, who are receiving threats on their lives because of this misinformation.

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Jan 30, 2023

One of the things that was in the bills that we passed would be an investment in a historic $15 billion for the removal of lead service lines.

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Jan 30, 2023

This is an existential issue right now dealing with the climate, and I am so happy that we are going to be addressing that.

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Jan 30, 2023

Americans have been subsidizing the fossil fuel industry to the tune, even today, of billions of dollars.

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Jan 30, 2023

I think it is really going to make a difference. It is going to make a difference to communities all over this country.

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Jan 11, 2023

Born alive has nothing to do with abortion. Providers are already required, by law, to provide appropriate medical care. Infanticide is murder. What we heard earlier is just not true. It is a lie that should not be repeated. As our…

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Jan 11, 2023

I am against all forms of violence, including violence against any one of the majority of Americans who support abortion rights. The statistics are absolutely clear. Since 1977, there have been 11 murders, 42 bombings, 196 arsons, 491…

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