Press Releases
February 24, 2012
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) joined women's health advocates and religious groups to speak out for women's access to contraception and in support of a final rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services on preventive health services.
Issues:
Reproductive Rights
February 16, 2012
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Jackie Speier (CA-12) introduced the Military and Veterans Education Protection Act, legislation that discourages for-profit colleges from aggressively targeting service members and veterans using military education assistance programs.
Issues:
Education
February 9, 2012
Bipartisan legislation co-authored by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Robert Dold (IL-10) to end taxpayer funded pensions for federal lawmakers convicted of corruption crimes was approved by the House of Representatives as part of the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.
Issues:
Government Transparency
February 2, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered an amendment to create a website which would allow taxpayers to calculate how much they would contribute to, or receive from, major spending or tax bills being considered by Congress.
Issues:
Government Transparency
January 31, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) introduced The Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act, a bipartisan bill that will enhance the national security benefits of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) while expanding the framework to welcome new countries like Poland into the program, and boost the economy.
Issues:
Immigration
January 25, 2012
The House Committee on Agriculture passed a bipartisan bill by voice vote, introduced by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-5) and Mike Conaway (TX-11) to improve the Commodity Future Trading Commission's (CFTC) existing cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of its regulations and orders.
Issues:
Government Transparency
January 24, 2012
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Jackie Speier (D-CA), both members of the Pro-Choice Caucus, spoke out against new legislation that would ban all abortions in the District of Columbia after twenty weeks, with extremely limited exceptions.
Issues:
Reproductive Rights
January 24, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley offered an amendment to the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 1433) to provide greater disclosure and transparency before the construction of oil and gas pipelines.
Issues:
Government Transparency
January 19, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Issues:
Government Transparency
January 19, 2012
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement of support following President Obama's earlier announcement that the Administration will increase efforts to expand the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
Issues:
Immigration