Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
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.
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Government Transparency
January 19, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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Government Transparency
January 18, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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Government Transparency
January 9, 2012
Following repeated reports of sexual abuse in the immigration detention system by the Heartland Alliance, Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate and offer possible remedies to improve conditions at Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and those with which they contract.