Press Releases
January 13, 2017
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL-5) and Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), has awarded the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) $1,078,300 to fund their Operations Control Center Safety Enhancements Project. The project would add additional safety indicators to the CTA’s Control Center (CC) and better integrate critical information collected from data. The CC coordinates service restoration, emergency responses, and day-to-day service that is provided to over 1.7 million CTA riders each day, across 224 miles of high voltage rail, and movement of over 1,800 buses daily.
Issues:
Transportation
January 13, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement in opposition to House Republicans’ 2017 budget resolution:
January 10, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after being named Vice-Chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC):
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January 9, 2017
Rep. Mike Quigley joined Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) President Dorval R. Carter, Senator Dick Durbin, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Acting Administrator Carolyn Flowers to announce a $1 billion funding agreement that will allow the CTA to move forward with the first phase of the Red and Purple Modernization Program (RPM)—a plan to rebuild the century-old rail lines north of Belmont and improve CTA rail service for decades to come.
Issues:
Appropriations
Transportation
January 9, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) addressed Alcott College Prep students at their East Elementary Campus today in advance of the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. Rep. Quigley is giving forty-one Alcott seventh and eighth grade students tickets to the inauguration taking place on January 20.
Issues:
Education
January 6, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement on the release of a new Commonwealth Fund and Milken Institute School of Public Health report, detailing economic and employment consequences of repealing the Affordable Care Act:
Issues:
Health Care
January 5, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the Pro-Choice Caucus, released the following statement following Speaker Ryan’s pledge to defund Planned Parenthood as part of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act:
Issues:
Reproductive Rights
January 3, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Transparency Caucus, released the following statement after House Republicans voted to cut powers of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE):
Issues:
Government Transparency
December 19, 2016
The bipartisan SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015 introduced by U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the New Democrat Coalition, along with Reps. John Carney (DE), Sean Duffy (WI-07) and Ander Crenshaw (FL-04), was signed into law by President Barack Obama. This legislation establishes the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Issues:
Economy and Jobs
December 16, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), released the following statement reiterating his invite to Scott Pruitt, President-Elect Trump’s nominee for EPA Administrator, to come to Chicago for a debate on the science of climate change:
Issues:
Government Transparency