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Government Transparency

April 26, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered an amendment that will create new and permanent online tools to allow taxpayers to calculate their individual contributions to federal agency programs.

April 25, 2012
Editorials
The revelation that the General Services Administration (GSA) spent more than $800,000 on a conference in Las Vegas is extremely troubling. We cannot afford $44 breakfasts or catered private parties in resort suites. While the price tag of this scandal is insulting, even worse is the GSA's brazen exploitation of the public's trust.
Issues: Government Transparency

March 22, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL.) joined Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL.) and Representatives Robert Dold (R-IL.) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) in applauding the Senate’s final passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK Act).

March 14, 2012
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) held a congressional field forum to discuss preventative measures to treat psychiatric disorders leading to suicide, the tenth leading cause of death in the America.

March 8, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) introduced legislation that will reform and increase transparency of the reimbursement process for travel by members of Congress.

February 28, 2012
United States Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urging the inclusion of bipartisan, bicameral legislation to fight public corruption in the final version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.

February 9, 2012
Bipartisan legislation co-authored by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Robert Dold (IL-10) to end taxpayer funded pensions for federal lawmakers convicted of corruption crimes was approved by the House of Representatives as part of the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.

February 2, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered an amendment to create a website which would allow taxpayers to calculate how much they would contribute to, or receive from, major spending or tax bills being considered by Congress.

January 25, 2012
The House Committee on Agriculture passed a bipartisan bill by voice vote, introduced by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-5) and Mike Conaway (TX-11) to improve the Commodity Future Trading Commission's (CFTC) existing cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of its regulations and orders.

January 24, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley offered an amendment to the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 1433) to provide greater disclosure and transparency before the construction of oil and gas pipelines.