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June 16, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley worked alongside employees at Chicago’s Blue Cart Recycling, collecting recyclable materials and loading trucks as part of his Undercover Congressman series.

June 12, 2014
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Suzan DelBene (WA-01) sent a letter with 57 of their colleagues urging the Obama Administration to take greater action to revise immigration enforcement procedures and provide relief from unnecessary detention and deportation.

June 11, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after voting against the FY15 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill.

June 11, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered amendments to the FY2015 Homeland Security Appropriations bill to protect undocumented immigrants from abuse in detention centers, reject unconstitutional Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers and end a mandated detention bed quota that wastes millions of dollars annually.

June 10, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered language that was successfully included in the FY2015 Defense Appropriations bill calling on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies to provide proportional funding for forward deployed nuclear weapons in Europe.

June 9, 2014
U.S. Representatives David Price (NC-04) and Mike Quigley (IL-05) led colleagues in the House in opposing measures in the 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill that would cut Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant funding by more than 80 percent, to $100 million, and restrict eligibility to prevent funding for public transit, bike and pedestrian projects.

June 5, 2014
Federal, state, county and local officials joined residents of Graue Mill on Thursday to announce the award of a long-sought flood mitigation grant for the neighborhood.

May 29, 2014
An amendment offered by U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 260-145-1, making it the first gun violence related legislation to pass this Congress.

May 28, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) announced a $600,000 grant to Cook County from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help clean up contaminated areas in seven west suburban municipalities.

May 22, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) voted to restore Americans’ privacy rights and pass H.R. 3361, the USA FREEDOM Act: United and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet Collection, and Online Monitoring Act. Rep. Quigley is an original cosponsor the bill, which ends the government’s bulk collection of phone records and requires increased government oversight and public scrutiny of domestic surveillance programs.