Press Releases

During the recent district work period, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) spent a day working on the railroad. Quigley donned a hard hat and visited rail workers at two Chicago sites to see first-hand how investments in rail provide Chicagoans jobs, improve infrastructure, and will help mitigate expected traffic increases in the coming years.

"At a time of limited resources, it is vital that all of our foreign contracts be held to the strictest scrutiny and utmost accountability."

"Its time to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell today."

District Office and FEMA may be able to offer federal assistance to those affected by recent flooding in Chicago.

Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05), Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (MI-14), Bobby Scott (VA-3), and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) heard testimony from law enforcement officials, victims of gun violence, and academic experts on the devastating effects of the Gun Show Loophole, a gap in federal law that allows private gun dealers to sell weapons to anyone – including terrorists, felons, and the mentally disabled – without performing background checks.

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) joined Reps. Luis V. Gutierrez and Jan Schakowsky, as well as dignitaries, Holocaust survivors, and diplomats at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie to mark the recent announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the U.S. government would invest $15 million in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in Poland to preserve and maintain the site of one of the most notorious death camps of the Holocaust.

"Chicago and the nation have lost a political giant."

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) voted to help pass a measure that will provide municipal governments across Illinois with much-needed relief to save jobs for teachers and support Medicaid providers.