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Veterans and elected officials filled the meeting room of American Legion McKinlock Post 264 in Lake Forest for a Vietnam-era Veteran Commemoration Ceremony in the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 29.
It was the seventh event of its kind hosted by U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) in the 10th Congressional District of Illinois. Thirty-six veterans, mainly from Lake County, were registered to attend. It was a long overdue official thank you for their service during possibly the most controversial war in American history.
Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider has been in Congress, serving Illinois's 10th Congressional District since Jan. 3, 2017, when he returned after winning back his seat the previous November.
Prior to that, he served as a congressman for the district between 2013 and 2015.
Schneider, 58, was the managing principal of a life-insurance firm for six years until becoming the director of the strategic-services group at Blackman Kallick, followed by starting his own consulting firm in 2008.
Schneider, who is Jewish, and his wife, Julie, have two children.
The Internal Revenue Service should investigate the National Rifle Association's non-profit status to determine whether it ran afoul of the tax code, Congressman Brad Schneider said in a report that highlights allegations of financial misconduct at the gun-rights group.
An Antioch nurse, a teacher at North Chicago Community High School and a Waukegan environmental activist will be in attendance at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Capitol Hill Tuesday as guests of two local U.S. Representatives and an Illinois senator who want to send a message to the current administration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a congressional delegation to Israel for the World Holocaust Forum's commemoration ceremony at Yad Vashem, joining dozens of world leaders traveling to Jerusalem this week.
The delegation, which includes Reps. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Brad Schneider (D-IL), will first travel to Poland, where they will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Citing a deadly year and the threat of domestic terrorism, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) have reintroduced the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020–legislation to enhance federal abilities to crack down on domestic terror.
Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois' 10th district spoke Thursday on the House floor in Washington ahead of voting in support of a non-binding resolution calling for a halt to military action against Iran in the wake of the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
"Soleimani was an evil man. A terrorist. A war criminal. No one should mourn his demise. But that doesn't change the question of who has the authority to take our nation into war," Schneider said.
Watch the video above for his full comments.
Some caution is warranted before putting the impeachment process in the hands of the United States Senate for a trial, Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) said Thursday, one day after voting to impeach President Donald Trump.
Schneider, along with other members of Congress who represent portions of Lake County -- Reps. Sean Casten (D, Downers Grove) and Lauren Underwood (D, Naperville) -- voted in favor of the two articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Wednesday.
A new congressional task force, billed as bipartisan but so far dominated by Chicago-area Democrats, has been formed to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency to update its ethylene oxide regulations.
Ethylene oxide came under sharp scrutiny last year after Chicago Tribune investigations revealed that three Chicago area plants were emitting the chemical into the air, years after the EPA changed its designation from probable carcinogen to known.
Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) visited Whitman Elementary School on Tuesday, November 5. Fourth grade students kicked off the visit by leading Congressman Schneider on a walking tour of Whitman. Schneider participated in an interactive Spanish language activity with third grade dual language students and later visited with pre-kindergarten students and their parents, who were at Whitman for Family Engagement Day.