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DemocratJanice D. Schakowsky
U.S. Representative · Illinois
Illinois's 9th district
U.S. Representative from Illinois
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How they won their seat
Janice D. Schakowsky won the 2024 U.S. House election in Illinois (District 9) with 68.4% of the vote (231,722 votes).
- Janice D. Schakowsky · Democrat68.4%231,722
- Seth Alan Cohen · Republican31.6%107,106
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Janice D. Schakowsky's record has sponsored numerous bills related to health care, consumer protection, and environmental issues. She has sponsored numerous bills related to health care access and safety, such as the 'Affordable CHOICE Act' and the 'Medical Device Recall Improvement Act of 2025', as well as consumer protection measures like the 'Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2025'. Additionally, her participation in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce addresses energy and environmental matters. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Consumer Protection · Environmental Issues · Public Safety · Labor Rights Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with her sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of her sponsored bills; There is no information on her unlogged work or informal activities; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of her priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Janice D. Schakowsky has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2025. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Janice D. Schakowsky has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
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- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$207K15%
- Large individual (itemized)$808K58%
- PAC / committee$375K27%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Commerce, Manufacturing, and TradeOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
440 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $412,978, spent $933,253, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9231: No Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Act of 2026 ↗Jun 9, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1316: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2050. ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8907: IMPACT to Save Moms Act ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8423: Energy Consumer Protection Act of 2026 ↗Apr 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8311: Protecting American Consumers from Robocalls Act ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7336: ALS Better Care Act ↗Feb 3, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1019: Recognizing the roles and the contributions of America's Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and their critical role in providing quality health care for the public and our Nation's Armed Forces, for more than 150 years and through multiple public health emergencies and beyond. ↗Jan 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7023: Affordable CHOICE Act ↗Jan 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6951: Stop Unfair Medicaid Recoveries Act ↗Jan 6, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6818: Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act ↗Dec 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6594: Medical Device Recall Improvement Act of 2025 ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 925: Condemning the Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of the Baha'i minority in Iran and the continued violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ↗Dec 3, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 440 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 241
- Nay
- 370
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 44
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Not voting
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Not voting
- S307Not voting
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
3 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.
SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorizationView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record asserting that the government ordinarily must obtain a judicial warrant to compel cell phone location data, and urging the DHS Inspector General to open a second investigation into ICE and other DHS components purchasing Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without one.
SourcesBicameral letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari requesting a second investigation of warrantless purchases of Americans' cell phone location data by ICE and other DHS componentsView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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