In the News
November 3, 2015
"Congressman welcome to the show I appreciate seeing you. Let me get right into it, with my first question. New Speaker of the House, life should be good there in Congress now. And, yet Paul Ryan say ‘guess what, immigration isn’t going to see the light of day.’ Is this just new name same policy? "
October 30, 2015
Every year American taxpayers spend more than $100 million to produce original, top-notch policy research for federal lawmakers. The reports issued by the Congressional Research Service are unclassified and nonpartisan—a remarkably useful set of factual distillations of everything from the Pentagon's budget to an election in Haiti. And the public doesn’t have direct access to them.
October 27, 2015
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Dist. 5) joined Reps. John Carney (D-DE), Sean Duffy (R-WI) and Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) in introducing the SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015 late last week.The legislation would set up an Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation and formalizes a Small Business Advisory Committee, giving small businesses a voice and a line of communication with regulators and lawmakers.
October 26, 2015
U.S. Reps. Dan Lipinski (D-Dist. 3) and Mike Quigley (D-Dist. 5) joined leaders of the passenger- and freight-rail industry recently in urging Congress to take immediate action to extend the upcoming deadline for implementing positive train control (PTC) safety technology and prevent a shutdown of the nation’s passenger- and freight-rail systems.
October 17, 2015
Worrisome headwinds swirled this week as O'Hare International Airport opened its third new runway since 2008.
October 15, 2015
"It’s good to see the country talking about baseball, including politicians talking about baseball. We’re going to check in with Congressman Mike Quigley who is from Chicago and is a die-hard Cubs fan about what might be in store for his city if the Cubs go all the way."
October 12, 2015
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Dist. 5) joined U.S. Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Ted Poe (R-TX) in introducing the Eyes on the Courts Act on Thursday in an effort to boost public access to federal court deliberations. The bill would require that cameras be granted access to Supreme Court proceedings, as well as those in all federal appellate courts.
October 9, 2015
A bipartisan group of members of Congress on Thursday introduced the latest bill aimed at requiring the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal appeals courts to allow broadcast and video coverage of their proceedings.
October 7, 2015
No need to ask Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) who he is cheering for in the National League wild-card game — it’s Da Cubbies.
October 6, 2015
Yesterday, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) went “undercover” as a corn farmer on Steve Ruh’s farm in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Mr. Ruh is a member of the Illinois Corn Growers Association. We also had staff, Jim Tarmann, on site as well.