Like other important immigrant communiti... by Jan Schakowsky

Politician Freedom Experience Democrat Illinois

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

- Jan Schakowsky

Other quotes by Jan Schakowsky

Control Years

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

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

Disaster American

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

- Jan Schakowsky

Congress Will

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

- Jan Schakowsky

Leadership

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

- Jan Schakowsky

Health Care

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

- Jan Schakowsky

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