Press Releases
January 30, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) visited the Franklin Park Fire Department and Amundsen High School to promote federal efforts helping local institutions improve their service to their communities
Issues:
Education
January 30, 2014
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) honored National Blood Donor Month and highlighted the need to reevaluate donation criteria that unfairly discriminates against men who have sex with men (MSM).
Issues:
LGBTQI+ Rights
Health Care
January 28, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
January 24, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) worked as a treatment plant operator at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) as part of his Undercover Congressman series.
Issues:
Energy / Environment
January 17, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s recommendations to curb the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program.
Issues:
Government Transparency
January 17, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Transit Authority President Forrest Claypool today said that as the only transit system currently accepted into the FTA’s Core Capacity Program, the CTA is poised to benefit from the infusion of funding included in the FY 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which was passed on a bipartisan Senate vote yesterday and now moves to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
Issues:
Transportation
January 15, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the $23.7 million cut to proposed spending for the B61 nuclear bomb program contained in the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Issues:
Defense & National Security
January 15, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which passed the House by a vote of 359-67.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs
Transportation
January 14, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) led an effort with nine of his Illinois congressional colleagues urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to bring fairness to the Chicago-area housing market by increasing the Chicago conforming loan limit rate to match other high-cost housing markets.
January 9, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) announced the award of a $461,724 grant to the Franklin Park Fire Department, which will be used to hire additional firefighters and paramedics.