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 was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1990 to 1998. She serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where she is the Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. The following is from the July 24, 2003, House floor debate on H.R. 2427, the Pharmaceutical Market Access Act. Over 13 million senior citizens on Medicare and 42 million uninsured Americans have no access to prescription drug coverage. Millions of others have skimpy…
