Jan Schakowsky

Jan Schakowsky

Janice "Jan" Danoff Schakowsky (born May 26, 1944 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party , who has represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives since 1999 .

Life

Consumer advocate and commitment to senior citizens

After attending Sullivan High School in Chicago, Janice Schakowsky studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated from this degree for elementary school teaching in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). After a brief post as a teacher , she founded the National Consumers Union , which at the time consisted of six people, out of disappointment that as a young mother and consumer she did not know which goods and ingredients in food were fresh . They researched the meaning of the encrypted numbers on products in order to be able to determine the production date and thus the freshness of a product. The group then published “code books” with a print run of 25,000 that enabled consumers to buy fresh produce. After an evening news broadcast of NBC 's report on the book of the NCU, the food producer concerned decided to introduce the specification of the best before date ( use by date ).

She was then director of the State Council for Seniors in Illinois from 1985 to 1990. In this capacity, she organized a demonstration by the elderly in 1989 against the Democratic Congressman Dan Rostenkowski , who had supported a bill to cut the funds with which Medicare health insurance pays for medications and serious illnesses, so that the elderly and often from fixed income Income dependent seniors got more cost to come. Because of these protests, the bill was withdrawn.

MPs and her husband scandal

She then began her political career and was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1990 to 1998 . In the 1998 congressional elections, she was finally elected as a representative of the Democratic Party in the US House of Representatives and has represented the ninth congressional electoral district of Illinois since January 3, 1999 . Her last re-election to date was in 2016.

In 2004, her second husband, Robert Creamer, who she has been married to since 1980, resigned as chairman of the Citizen's Action of Illinois after the FBI interrogated him over $ 1 million in debt . Thereafter, the former consumer protection attorney was charged with bank fraud, income tax evasion and checking checks . In the trial, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five months ' imprisonment, while his wife protested her innocence on the matter.

Currently, Jan Schakowsky also one of the Chief Deputy Whips democratic minority group in the US House of Representatives, by the political group leaders ( US House Minority Leader ) Nancy Pelosi and US House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer is performed.

Web links

Commons : Jan Schakowsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence at the congress
• Jan Schakowsky in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Jan Schakowsky in nndb (English)
• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia