Jan Schakowsky
Democrat · Representative · IL-9 · 629 roll-call votes recorded this Congress.
The record
Jan Schakowsky, Democrat representing Illinois's 9th district, has served 27 years in the House while authoring 41 bills, none of which advanced past committee.
Schakowsky sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees energy, health, and telecommunications policy. Her legislative work centers on government operations, civil rights, and healthcare; she has cosponsored 603 bills across her tenure. Her district ranks in the top 5 percent nationally for bachelor's degree attainment at 55.3 percent, in a state with unemployment at 4.7 percent.
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