Jan Schakowsky

Janice "Jan" Schakowsky Danoff ( born May 26, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, which represents the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1999.

Life

Verbraucherschützerin and commitment to seniors

After visiting the Sullivan High School in Chicago Janice Schakowsky studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign and graduated for teaching in primary schools in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.) from. After a short subsequent work as a teacher, she founded out of frustration that she did not know as a young mother and consumer which products and ingredients were fresh in foods, the National Consumer Union ( National Consumers Union), which then consisted of six people. These explored the meaning of the encrypted numbers on products in order to thereby determine the date of production and thus the freshness of a product can. The group released after " code books" in an edition of 25,000 copies, which made ​​it possible for consumers to buy fresh produce. After an evening news program of the NBC reported on the book of the NUC, the affected food producers decided to introduce the indication of the durability date (use by date).

Subsequently, she was from 1985 to 1990 director of the State Council for Senior Citizens in Illinois. In this capacity, she organized in 1989, a demonstration of the elderly against the Democratic Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who had supported a bill, due to which the funds should be reduced, which pays the Medicare health insurance medications and serious diseases, so that older and often of solid income dependent seniors cost more to come. Because of these protests, the bill was withdrawn.

MPs and scandal surrounding her husband

After that, she began her political career and was from 1990 to 1998 a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois. In the congressional elections in 1998 she was elected as the representative of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives and represents there since January 3, 1999 Ninth Congressional District of Illinois.

2004 resigned her second husband, Robert Creamer, with whom she has been married since 1980, as chairman of the citizens' movement of Illinois (Citizen 's Action of Illinois ) after the FBI because of debts in the amount of one million U.S. dollars interrogated him. Thereafter, the former consumer protection lawyer was indicted for bank fraud, income tax evasion and check cavalry. In the trial he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five months in prison, while his wife protested her innocence in this matter.

Currently in January Schakowsky is also one of the Chief Deputy Whips of the democratic minority group in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Group (U.S. House Minority Leader ) Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer U.S. is performed.