Simply raising fuel economy standards fo... by Jan Schakowsky

Politician Economy Democrat Illinois Progressive

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

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Health Care Work

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

- Jan Schakowsky

Policy Sound

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

- 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

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

War Years

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

- Jan Schakowsky

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