Jan Schakowsky

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Last activity: 16.06.2026

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United States, Illinois, Chicago

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+1 202-225-2111

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Apr 29, 2025	Hegseth boasts about ending ‘woke’ program on women and security that Trump had signed into law	Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who at the time represented South Dakota in the House, wrote the House version of the 2017 Women, Peace and Security Act alongside Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. And as recently as this ...
Jun 27, 2024	CPPI Endorses Freshly Introduced 'Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act'	Rep. Schakowsky Introduces Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act Rep. Schakowsky Introduces Bill to Ensure Millions of Americans Have Access to Affordable, Critical Daily Medications Expanding access to imported medicines th...
Apr 5, 2024	Outrage Over Israeli Strike on Aid Workers	Democrats in Congress are fuming over the Israeli Defense Force's strike that killed seven humanitarian workers in Gaza. The rift between Israel and Democratic lawmakers is widening, sparking calls to reassess U.S. military aid policies. Wo...
Apr 2, 2024	Israel faces outrage from Democrats over strike that killed aid workers	Democrats in Congress are outraged after an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) strike killed seven humanitarian workers from José Andrés' World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza. Why it matters: Israel's rift with Democratic lawmakers is growing wider...
Jan 30, 2024	Senate Dems' human rights bill drop	Senate Democrats are preparing a big human rights package with implications for the global energy sector. Why it matters: Dems want to offer U.S. diplomatic muscle to assist people in other countries protesting resource extraction … and dec...
Dec 10, 2022	Lawmakers explain why they went to Qatar for the World Cup despite human rights concerns: 'There are no perfect countries'	Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call and Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup has been controversial, given the country's human ri...
Aug 16, 2021	Tinder will soon make voluntary ID Verification available globally	Tinder announced this morning that in the “coming quarters,” users will be able to verify their ID on the app. This feature was first rolled out in Japan in 2019, where Tinder users must verify that they are at least 18 years old. Aside fro...
Jun 22, 2021	Changing Section 230 Won't Make The Internet A Kinder, Gentler Place	Tech platforms, especially the largest ones, have a problem—there’s a lot of offensive junk online. Many lawmakers on Capitol Hill keep coming back to the same solution: blaming Section 230.
Jun 22, 2021	Changing Section 230 Won't Make The Internet A Kinder, Gentler Place	Tech platforms, especially the largest ones, have a problem?there?s a lot of offensive junk online. Many lawmakers on Capitol Hill keep coming back to the same solution: blaming Section 230.
May 19, 2021	Beyond a symbolic gesture: What’s needed to turn the IP waiver into Covid-19 vaccines	The Biden administration’s announcement to support an intellectual property (IP) waiver for Covid-19 vaccines was a monumental step toward improving the access to them in low- and middle-income countries. But without further action, it will...
May 12, 2021	Bad Section 230 Bills Come From Both Sides Of The Aisle: Schakowsky/Castor Bill Would Be A Disaster For The Open Internet	It truly is stunning how every single bill that attempts to reform Section 230 appears to be written without any intention of ever understanding how the internet or content moderation works in actual practice. We've highlighted tons of Repu...
May 12, 2021	Bad Section 230 Bills Come From Both Sides Of The Aisle: Schakowsky/Castor Bill Would Be A Disaster For The Open Internet	It truly is stunning how every single bill that attempts to reform Section 230 appears to be written without any intention of ever understanding how the internet or content moderation works in actual practice. We’ve highlighted tons of Repu...
Oct 2, 2019	Trade agreement drug monopoly is obsolete given faster, better drug discovery	For decades, the brand-name drug industry has relentlessly promoted the message that any reduction in its government-protected monopolies would have detrimental effects on innovation. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have take...
Jul 12, 2019	Lawmakers urge Trump administration to alter trade deal or Americans will pay more for drugs	More than 100 Democratic members of Congress urged the Trump administration to remove pending language from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade agreement that would lock the U.S into at least 10 years of marketing exclusivity for biologi...
Feb 13, 2018	The Cyberlaw Podcast: News Roundup	Cyberlaw Podcast alumnus Marten Mickos was called before the Senate commerce committee to testify about HackerOne’s bug bounty program. But the unhappy star of the hearings was Uber, which was heavily criticized for having paid out a large ...
Apr 25, 2014	HPSCI in the Next Congress	What follows is rank speculation. It is teasing out a trend from some isolated facts and it may well be completely in error. But, that having been said, the tea leaves tell me that the future holds a far more confrontational relationship be...
	House lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill requiring total disclosure of ticketing fees	Lawmakers introduced the TICKET Act to force ticket vendors to disclose all fees upfront at the time of purchase. The House bill is a companion to legislation introduced in the Senate in April. Ticketing sites and associated fees have come ...
	State Medicaid offices try to take away dead people’s homes to recoup their health care bills: ‘It is one of the most cruel, ineffective programs that we see’	As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a ...
	Match Group expands background checks to two more apps so users can screen dates	Match Group is expanding its partnership with background check service Garbo to roll out the safety feature to two more of its dating apps as singles push for more in-person meetups. The company announced Tuesday that users on its namesake ...

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Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Jan Schakowsky, among them “Hegseth boasts about ending ‘woke’ program on women and security that Trump had signed into law” (Apr 29, 2025) and “CPPI Endorses Freshly Introduced 'Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act'” (Jun 27, 2024).

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