Press Releases

This week, U.S. Representative Brad Schneider (IL-10) joined Reps. Ted Deutch (FL-22), Carolyn Maloney (NY-12), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), along with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) to introduce the 3D Printed Gun Safety Act, legislation to prohibit the online distribution of blueprints and instructions that allow for the three dimensional (3D) printing of firearms.

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL) announced that ten students in the Tenth Congressional District received highly-competitive appointments to a U.S. military service academy.

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL) and City of Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham announced the award of a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up an 11-acre site along Lake Michigan.

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL) introduced the Teachers Are Leaders Act (H.R. 3108) to expand professional development and leadership growth opportunities for teachers. U.S. Representatives Glenn "GT" Thompson (R-PA), David Trone (D-MD), Chuck Flesichmann (R-TN), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), and Glenn Grothman (R-WI) joined Schneider to introduce this bipartisan bill.

Today, U.S. Representatives Brad Schneider (D-IL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a bipartisan resolution commemorating Cancer Survivor Beauty and Support Day.

Started in 2003 by an Illinois resident, Cancer Survivor Beauty and Support Day is now celebrated on the first Tuesday of June by participants in all 50 states.

Participating salons and spas volunteer to donate their services free of change to cancer survivors to ensure they feel empowered and included in their communities.

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL) issued the following statement:

"The U.S. EPA this week held a public meeting in DuPage County to discuss the increased risk of cancer resulting from exposure to the toxic air pollutant ethylene oxide at the Sterigenics facility. When will the U.S. EPA do its job and hold a public meeting to discuss the EtO exposure facing communities in Lake County? My constituents deserve answers.

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL), a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, published an opinion piece in Newsweek calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate the National Rifle Association's (NRA's) tax-exempt status in light of reports of self-dealing and other abuses of its non-profit status:

IRS Must Investigate NRA's Tax-Exempt Status | Opinion
Brad Schneider, U.S. Representative / Illinois

Today, Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) released the below statement following a press conference by Special Counsel Robert Mueller:

"Today, Special Counsel Robert Mueller made crystal clear that his report ‘speaks for itself.' Contrary to the President's claims of exoneration, the Special Counsel reiterated that ‘if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.'