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New Schakowsky Website Seeks Constituent Input
Congresswoman wants to know if people prefer a budget with more spending cuts or revisions in the tax code.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) launches a new interactive website today, You Choose, asking citizens their opinion about what kind of budget the House of Representatives should pass and send to the Senate.
The budget proposed by the House Republican majority and authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) contains spending cuts that affect defense and domestic spending including education, medical research, nutrition and job training, according to the website.
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“Budgets are about choices—and the choices Congress makes over the coming months will affect every person and business in our country,” Schakowsky said on the website. “I want to hear what you would choose, and here is your first question.”
People responding then click a circle letting Schakowsky know if they prefer $1.2 trillion in proposed cuts or would rather change the tax code to eliminate deductions which benefit a small portion of the population. For those who want a detailed explanation, she offers it here.
“This site is designed to be interactive and really ask people to think about the choice and provide them more information about their choice,” Schakowsky Communications Director Sabrina Singh said in an email. “The questions will change every few weeks to keep a discussion going.”
If the House and Senate do not agree on a budget by May 19, members will not draw a salary until they pass one as a result of legislation passed in January to extend the nation’s debt ceiling.
McCloud
11:49 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Jan, after being in Congress for over 14 years, and voting for every bill that has brought us to this point, now you are concerned about choices? Your choice is very clear to me.
david kraatz
2:26 pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Jan must go !!
STANLEY
2:12 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Jan, I had this discussion with a few friends and wonder why are you guys more important than the people you are supposed to represent. You are spending our money like the rich cats you are supposed to protect us from. Work on this, time limit for all of you, no special privileges for you guys, no special healthcare for you guys, no $2 millions spending cash, buy and drive your own car like the rest of us. CREATE JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, STOP THIS TAX INCREASE BILL, CUT TAX, YES CUT OR YOU CAN SIMPLY GIVE 3 MONTHS OF YOUR SALARY AWAY TO HELP THE POORS
shp
7:47 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Term limits for all elected officials. The President has a term limit. I'm still not clear what Jan has accomplished in 14 years that has made a real impact. Look at Evanston - there is a gang war going on and has been going on for the past 6 months (this time). What has been done about that. And now that Harry Reid backed down from the gun control bill gun violence will continue. I don't know that Jan knows best. I have no faith in the current elected officials other than Daniel Biss. He seems to be cut from a different cloth. Jan S.,, Lou Lang, Dick Durbin, Madigans, and all other senior elected officials should be OUT! Skokie is a mess also because of long term elected officials and the Village manager. That is why I'm voting for all independent candidates in the upcoming Skokie election. It seems like our only hope.
david kraatz
2:22 pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Could not agree more!
Merrill M
8:03 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Whenever I hear about politicians talking about the budget, I think the 1993 film "Dave" ought to be required viewing. As individuals and families, all of us can go through our own spending to find opportunities to trim without sacrificing health, safety or true happiness. Why can't government agencies do the same thing?
BUTCH
7:41 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
My god where do we start? The newly primaried candidate from the 2 Il Kelly goes to AIPAC to get her marching orders and thank the mayor of NY, before being elected! It is also the same dinner u and 98% of the elected DEMOPUBS go and ask for Lynn Cheney or some other Neo-Cons blessing, every Judeo-Christian Charlatan had better start acting like a American, not a ZIONIST or BAINLAND CHINESE,
The overwhelming number of congress should be barred along with the partner of the RED ARMY Robme should be barred from any Federal office u all are agents of foreign governments no matter how Liberal u are passing yer self off as, there is more representation for Arabs in the Knesset and Israel than in this mobbed up congress. Real and true Americans of every party and ideology are no longer the uninformed nitwits u believe despite the low info posts on these threads ,the F 35 is the tip of the spear u and the TPARTY, the lyin RYAN budget will gut SSA-MEDICARE and give the welfare queens more funding after wasting one trillion for a plane that cannot fly in bad weather? Let the Zionist assassin NETANYAHU and the Cayman islanders build the F 35 --Leave SSA-MEDICARE alone unless u are going to cap it at 250,000 but that would mean u pay more!
Jim Osburn
11:51 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Butch, you leave us speechless. Utterly speechless.
BUTCH
12:31 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Jim u will recover the truth does that to a lot of people these days!
McCloud
1:21 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Crack smoking also might explain the fragmented unreadable trash. I don;t invest any more time in even attempting to read your nonsense.
BUTCH
1:56 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Do the other members of the family? Edgar the brother, wood screw, Jerry Mahoney and Granny how bout Mom is she a original wooden Indian?