Government Transparency

Today, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and James Comer (R-KY), the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act, to increase access to transparency regarding the federal government's expenditure of taxpayer dollars, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 412-2.

U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Fred Upton (R-MI), today re-introduced a bipartisan bill, the Preventing Future Pandemics Act, which would direct the State Department to work with international partners to shut down commercial wildlife markets, end the trade in live wildlife for human consumption and stop the associated wildlife trade, end the import, export and sale of live wildlife for human consumption in the United States, and phase out demand for wildlife as a food source.

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Today, a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) to increase transparency regarding the federal government's expenditure of taxpayer dollars, passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) introduced the Reducing Nefarious Crimes Act – or RNC Act – to increase penalties for violating the Hatch Act and make it clear that the American people take ethics in government seriously. The Hatch Act prohibits executive branch employees from using their official roles for campaign purposes.

Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services & General Government, released the following statement after Senate Republicans included $1.75 billion for the reconstruction of FBI headquarters in their coronavirus relief proposal:

"As Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, it's been clear for years that the FBI needs a new headquarters in a new location. The Hoover Building is falling apart and simply cannot support the security needs of the Bureau.

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement after President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone. Stone is a longtime political ally of Trump and was convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering as part of Special Investigator Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) issued a statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the consolidated cases of Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Deutsche Bank, in which the Court asked the lower courts to further develop the record to assess the House's need for the President's financial records: