Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
Janice "Jan" Schakowskyis the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 9th congressional district, serving since 1999. She is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 May 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
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As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.
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Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
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Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
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I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
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Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
believe gun giving
I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun....
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It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.
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Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.
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Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.
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Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
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Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.