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"President Trump and Interior Secretary Zinke's decision to overturn the common-sense plastic water bottle ban in National Parks is a clear reminder that this Administration will continually bow to the agendas of profit-driven corporations at the expense of our National Parks, wildlife, and environment"

The only thing that’s surprising is that more revelations like this haven’t come out sooner,” said Congressman Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat and a member of the House Intelligence Committee. “And I expect that more will.”

House Financial Services Appropriations ranking Democrat Mike Quigley (D-Ill) said the CHOICE Act provisions should not have been included in the funding measure. He said it amounted to an “88-page authorizing bill that has no place on this bill.”

“The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections,” Rep. Mike Quigley, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. “They got into the database,” he said. “I believe they’re on the doorstep to hacking into our voting systems. That is my educated guess.”

“Any other Republican president might be easier to communicate with,” said Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), a House Intelligence Committee member backing an amendment to restore EAC funding. “This one now believes any discussion about how the election was operated is through the prism of questioning the validity of the election. I desperately want to get past that.”

"We put them on the line. We told them to trust. We are partly responsible for what may happen, "said Mike Quigley, a congressman from the fifth district of Illinois, who attended a press conference Wednesday with a group of dreamers, including Aguílar. "At this point it is a question of more congressmen raising their voice and with the public, educational institutions and pro-immigrant organizations raise public pressure towards the White House. DACA is a very important program, "said the politician.

"The president of the United States has to ask himself and act, fairly quickly, 'What kind of country are we?' Rep. Quigley said.

"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].