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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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Oct 5, 2017

Who wins in the Republican budget? Same old same old; millionaires, billionaires, large corporations. The Republican budget paves the way for their plan, which gives 80 percent of its tax cuts to the top 1 percent of Americans, while 30…

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Oct 3, 2017

That is exactly right, Mr. Speaker. If a corporation deducts interest expenses on investments overseas, and that would include building a new manufacturing plant offshore somewhere. So we don't want to be rewarding corporations that are…

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Oct 3, 2017

I am a proud member of that caucus because workers, as we know, are just not getting a fair deal right now in today's economy. The U.S. is the richest country in the world and in the history of the world. We are richer than we have ever…

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Oct 3, 2017

I wanted to just pick up on something that Congressman Veasey said, but first let me just thank the gentleman from California for his relentless push to make sure that we have good jobs in America, that that is part of our better deal. We…

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Oct 3, 2017

I am going to come to the gentleman right now and get his signature.

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Oct 3, 2017

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Madam Speaker, I rise for Tori. This is her story: Tori and her husband planned her pregnancy carefully to make sure that her maternity leave worked with her graduate studies, and they were…

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Oct 2, 2017

The Equifax data breach was massive in scale: 145.5 million American victims as of yesterday.

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Oct 2, 2017

And Mr. Kelley, who we were told knew of the breach and that it contained personal information and yet still approved the stock sale, is he still chief legal officer for Equifax?

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Oct 2, 2017

I think the American public deserves to know the facts about when and how Mr. Smith, company management, and the board of directors were made aware its systems were vulnerable to hackers and over 143 million sensitive personal data records…

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Oct 2, 2017

This puts the control of consumers' credit information where it belongs, with the consumer.

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Oct 2, 2017

I am glad the FBI is looking into it and many state attorneys general.

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Oct 2, 2017

I am hoping this will lead to a wider discussion.

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