Press Releases
July 3, 2014
U. S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) announced Trushitha Narla as the winner of the House Student App Challenge for Illinois’ 5th Congressional District. Narla’s app, Sign It!, translates numbers in sign language to a text format using leap motion technology that captures data from the user’s finger motions.
Issues:
Education
June 30, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to exempt closely held companies from providing contraception coverage to their employees.
Issues:
Reproductive Rights
June 25, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) fought against efforts to restrict the right to choose for women living in the District of Columbia during the Appropriation Committee’s consideration of the FY15 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations Bill.
Issues:
Reproductive Rights
Health Care
June 19, 2014
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05), Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) are urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct new public hearings and issue a new environmental impact study (EIS) of the O’Hare Modernization Program in response to increased noise pollution and questions raised over the hearings process.
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.
Issues:
Immigration
Government Transparency
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.
Issues:
Appropriations
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.
Issues:
Appropriations
Immigration
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.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs