Honorable Jan Schakowsky
United States Representative, Illinois, Democrat
Representative Schakowsky, of the Ninth District of Illinois, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998. She founded National Consumers Unite in 1969, and was Program Director of Illinois Public Action from 1976 to 1985 and Executive Director of the Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens from 1985 to 1990. She served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1990 to 1998. She sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the September 20, 2012, House floor debate on H.R. 3409, the Stop the War on Coal…
