Today in Pennsylvania , children of middle and working class families have access to health insurance because of CHIP. Schwartz resides in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania with her husband David, a Philadelphia cardiologist. They are the parents of two sons, Daniel and Jordan. Schwartz considers party fracking moratorium 'misguided'. I had recently completed graduate school in social work and was working for a fledgling H. There was group of women ready to step up and face the challenge to make family planning and reproductive health and abortion services available, and to be run by women and to make sure we provided a safe space.
We created a nonprofit, took out a bank loan, that was rather ambitious of us, and said we would just do it. I was the first director for over 12 years, and we served women of all incomes and races. It was an experience that proved to me that you can take on bold ideas and do it, get it done, and to be respected in a health care community. It was a remarkable experience. Burk : Was that one of the motivators for you to run for public office later?
Schwartz: Yes. Certainly, my understanding of how important it was to have women in positions of power, including in making the laws of our land was very much a reason why I ran for office. My mother was a Holocaust survivor, so I understood from a very young age that the government could do ill or do harm, and that we should be looking out not only for ourselves but the greater world around us when it came to discrimination and hate and violence.
Those issues were just a part of who I am, feeling some responsibility to care about the world around me, and what happened to both my own people as a Jew, but also as a woman.
Burk : Do you think now that things have changed very much in Congress with the likes of Matt Gaetz showing nude pictures of women to his cronies on the House floor? The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress.
Overall, Pennsylvania ranked 34th in average salary for representative staff. The average U. Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Click the link above for the full ratings of all members of Congress. Schwartz was one of three House members who ranked th in the liberal rankings in Schwartz ranked th in the liberal rankings in The website OpenCongress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus.
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Schwartz was born Allyson Young in Queens, New York, on October 3, , the second of four children and the oldest daughter. She married David Schwartz, a cardiologist, and they had two children: Daniel and Jordan. Schwartz was 26 at the time. Shortly after the Supreme Court legalized abortion with its Roe v.
Wade decision in , Schwartz and others established the Elizabeth Blackwell Center, a women-run nonprofit health center for women providing a range of care and services that included cancer screening, birth control, and abortions.
Schwartz served as its executive director. In Schwartz won a seat in the state senate after defeating a year incumbent from northern Philadelphia. When ignored by senate Democratic leaders, she routinely disregarded caucus decisions, disrupting their legislative strategy.
She gained both a record of accomplishments and a reputation for being independent. In , when Representative Joseph M. In the Democratic primary she faced Joe Torsella, a former aide to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell and director of the National Constitution Center who had the backing of the state Democratic organization.
In a hard-fought race, Schwartz edged out Torsella, 52 percent to 48 percent. In the general election, Schwartz faced Republican Melissa Brown, an ophthalmologist who had run against Hoeffel in Health care became the central issue of the campaign, and the race turned negative.
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