Member of Congress

Jan Schakowsky

Role
Current Representative
State
IL
Party
Democrat

Cosponsored legislation

H.Res. 146 · 110th Congress

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should take action to meet its obligations, and to ensure that all other member states of the United Nations meet their obligations, to women as agreed to in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 relating to women, peace, and security, and the United States should fully assume the implementation of international law relating to human rights that protects the rights of women and girls during and after conflicts, and for other purposes.

In committeeStatus updated 2007-02-08

H.Res. 121 · 110th Congress

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Force's coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as "comfort women", during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.

Passed chamber resolutionStatus updated 2007-07-30