Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Col... by Jan Schakowsky

Politician Years Control Democrat Illinois

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

- Jan Schakowsky

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Ideas Nothing Will

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.

- Jan Schakowsky

Health Care End

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

- Jan Schakowsky

Health Care

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

- Jan Schakowsky

Economy

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

- Jan Schakowsky

War Years

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

- Jan Schakowsky

Control World

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

- Jan Schakowsky

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