Editorials
There’s an old saying about America’s transportation system, “if it rolls, floats, or flies, it comes through Chicago.” As a member of Congress on the congressional committee that funds transportation and housing infrastructure, I’m proud that the city I represent is so integral to our nation’s transportation system. But the infrastructure that has been so critical to my city, and our country’s success, is quickly becoming obsolete, and replacing it is taking too long.
In this never-ending stream of jaw-dropping announcements coming out of the White House, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and distracted. That’s what administration officials want. But despite the head-scratching and deeply worrying claim from President Donald Trump last week that the U.S. could turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” (with the possibility of U.S.
We're drowning in plastic. It's quite literally everywhere – from our parks to our oceans to our bodies – but when we search for a life raft, we find hundreds of articles telling us how we can individually "reduce, reuse, and recycle" our way out of the 10 million tons of plastic that currently sit in our oceans. Corporations and systemic inertia have placed the onus of plastic waste on the individual, when in reality little can be done by an individual without collective action.
In recent weeks, Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan by claiming that its focus is not on traditional infrastructure.
That's true. And that's exactly the point.
We have to build forward, not backward. That means improving our roads and bridges but also going far beyond those priorities. We live in a new world where infrastructure is the internet we surf, the electric grid that powers our homes, the pipes that deliver our water and so much more.
Former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before two House committees last week showed the American people why an impeachment inquiry is the only option Congress has left.
The U.S. democratic process is under attack.
On April 21, the people of Ukraine will go to the polls to choose their next president.
No matter the outcome, the United States stands ready to support the Ukrainian people against foreign actors seeking to undermine Ukraine's democratic trajectory, sovereignty and security. We refer, of course, to Russian President Vladimir Putin, his agents, and their destabilizing efforts worldwide.
Rep. Quigley (IL-05) and Rep. Hultgren (IL-14) released the following op-ed in celebration of Immigrant Heritage Month, which is commemorated throughout the month of June.
One year ago today, when the world was officially informed of President Donald Trump's decision to remove the U.S. from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate action, I was standing at an overlook off Trail Ridge Road at the top of the Rockies in Rocky Mountain National Park. I was in the Rockies with the National Park Service for the express purpose of better understanding the climate change impacts that our national parks are already experiencing and what the NPS is doing every single day to combat them.