Janice Schakowsky

Where people in the first few months of the year have great expenses on health care and suddenly they find that they're not going to be able to be insured any more.

But it is really wrong, I think, to put out information that really causes older Americans who are so dependent on Medicare, and that is most of the people on Medicare that really rely on it for most of their health care even if they have…

I have to say that it is not necessarily just a little bit. At the beginning of September, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice announced the largest health care fraud settlement in history. Pfizer, the…

Thank you very much for reminding everybody, first of all, that Medicare is the government program of health care for older Americans. It is not just a made-up story that sometimes people come up to us and say, Keep government hands off my…

I'm so happy to be here tonight, particularly after I have heard what my colleagues had to say. One of them said, Our people need to hear the truth about the health care legislation. That's exactly what we're going to talk about tonight…

I feel like all of the testimony that we have heard has reinforced this idea that this is something that we can change, that we are bringing this on ourselves, that our industry will survive, that with better health practices and limited…

Of the estimated 1.4 million people infected with salmonella each year, about one in five cases is resistant to antibiotics.

In my home State in California, we have been buffeted in recent years by outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli.

The use of these antibiotics in farm animals do, I think, endanger our health, and there is evidence to say that.

I think the nightmare scenario is that something that perhaps when we were young would have been a routine dose of penicillin or some other antibiotic suddenly is impotent.

This bill would require the FDA to end the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock--a practice that is contributing to increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant diseases.

I am pleased to offer my testimony today in support of your bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009.

Some vulnerabilities are thrust upon us as a Nation, and others, like the one we are discussing, are really self-imposed.

We are doing it in order to grow animals faster or, you know, to promote growth and not to promote health.

Well, on this battlefield, it seems as if we are disarming ourselves.

Finally, SAVE's top legislative priority is passing the Student Voter Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Jan Schakowsky, Steven LaTourette of Ohio, and Dick Durbin of Illinois.

First, we support the Count Every Vote Act, which was a comprehensive election reform piece of legislation introduced by the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones.

Look, law enforcement is using videotaping because it not only is a matter of protection for the person that is being interrogated, but for the interrogator, him or herself, as well. There are rules that guide interrogations. Having those…

Fourteen million dollars in an hour, 24/7, over 5 years, $10 billion per month, 4,000 dead Americans, tens of thousands of wounded warriors, untold sacrifice of military families, innocent civilians in Iraq killed by the hundreds of…

No more chances, no more wavers, no phony certifications, no more spending billions of dollars to send our children into the meat grinder that is Iraq.

I do rise in support of H. Res. 149, the International Women's Day resolution. Each year, countries around the world mark March 8 as International Women's Day as a day to recognize the contributions and the impact that women have made to…

Let me close by saying this: this is really a jobs bill and a truth-in-labeling bill. It is a win-win-win situation: good for the consumers, good for the manufacturers, good for the garment workers. And I urge its passage. I yield back the…

BP, a company that raked in over $7 billion in profits in the second quarter of this year alone, neglected to conduct even remotely adequate or responsible maintenance.

You can imagine a fairly mid-sized, kind of small-town community, when a major employer like that leaves town, it does not just impact that business or those workers. It resonates throughout the community in a very negative way, and it is…

The moral measure of any trade agreement should be how it affects the lives and dignities of poor families and vulnerable workers whose voices should receive special attention in this discussion.