Local Representative Schakowsky Votes Against GOP Plan To Raise Taxes on Middle Class & Military Families by Gary Kopycinski on August 2, 2012 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Local: Park Forest’s Sandra Zoellner Retires After 21 Years of Service June 17, 2026 Save the date for The Prairie Party at theNate June 17, 2026 Governors State Has New Soccer Complex and New Men’s Coach June 17, 2026 Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 2, 2012 – Yesterday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky released the following statement after House passage of HR 8: