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U.S. Representative · Illinois 9th District
Janice D. Schakowsky
DemocratDistrict D+19119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score18#397 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Janice D. Schakowsky’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2408 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1309
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 27 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 27 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 452, H.R. 516, H.R. 539, H.R. 909 and 22 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 38 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 516 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 539 Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
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Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 27.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMinority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and TradeRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Environment
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
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Schakowsky← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.602 is 0.21 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 551–600 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1520Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 22
| Entrenched |