Jan Schakowsky

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky Offers Alternative Deficit Plan

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Members of the President's deficit commission are debating how to vote on a controversial plan to reduce the nation's budget deficit. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) says she plans to reject the plan put forward by the commission's co-chairs, Erskine Bowles, former Chief of Staff for President Clinton, and Republican former Senator Alan Simpson. Instead, she's offering an alternative plan which would sharply reduce spending at the Pentagon and raise corporate taxes, targeting windfall profits and excessive executive pay.

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Progressive Budget Cuts

Friday, November 19, 2010

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL 9), member of the president's deficit reduction committee, offers her plan for cutting the deficit.

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