Transportation
January 31, 2018
Rep. Quigley released the following statement in response to President Trump’s first State of the Union address.
October 19, 2017
"We have contacted helicopter operators regarding operations in the vicinity of Wrigley Field. We advised them to vary their altitudes and flight paths in order to operate in a more neighborly fashion."
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Transportation
September 19, 2017
CHICAGO – Yesterday, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), toured upcoming Brown Line and Blue Line Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) projects that are utilizing federal funds.
August 29, 2017
"I think pardoning Arpaio ["Sheriff Joe"] was a trial balloon," says Congressman Mike Quigley, 5th District, who admitted, in West Town Sunday, that his paranoia about President Trump's actions "beside firing Sessions who would fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who would fire special counsel Robert Mueller, is that he would pardon some of these guys [being investigated].
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Health Care
Transportation
July 10, 2017
Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley visited Heritage Bicycles, a Chicago-based small business that builds American-made custom bicycles, offers repair services, and brews their own coffee. Rep. Quigley toured the store and assisted customers with bicycle maintenance and food orders.
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May 31, 2017
The following article was published on May 31, 2017. A link to the article can be found here.
By MELANIE ZANONA
More than a dozen rail systems around the country have received federal funding to help speed up their efforts to install a major train safety technology that many railroads have struggled to adopt.
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May 24, 2017
U.S. Reps. Quigley and Lipinski (R-IL) and U.S. Senators Durbin (D-IL) and Duckworth (D-IL) announced that Metra will receive $20,168,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) safety technology on its Milwaukee North and West lines. PTC is a federally mandated computerized system that prevents certain types of train-to-train collisions, helps avoid derailments and other accidents caused by excessive speed, and increases safety for rail workers.
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Transportation
May 24, 2017
U.S. Representatives Dan Lipinski (IL-3) and Mike Quigley (IL-5) and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced today that Metra will receive $20,168,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation for implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) safety technology on its Milwaukee North and West lines. PTC is a federally mandated computerized system that prevents certain types of train-to-train collisions, helps avoid derailments and other accidents caused by excessive speed, and increases safety for rail workers.
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April 11, 2017
The Department of Transportation kicked off a review on Tuesday to determine whether United Airlines followed the rules in the wake of a passenger being dragged off a plane at O’Hare Airport.
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Transportation
April 10, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), joined leaders from Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association (REMSA) as part of his “Mike on the Move” initiative. The visit included a tour of the company’s new Elmhurst facility and a discussion about the infrastructure funding needs of Chicago’s manufacturing and rail sectors.
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Transportation