Press Releases
May 24, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), secured language in the Fiscal Year 2017 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill that requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to identify short and long-term noise mitigation measures at O’Hare, as well as requires the FAA to reevaluate its criteria for sound insulation and provide airports with more flexibility on awarding insulation including second round insulation.
Issues:
Appropriations
May 20, 2016
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), and Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) led a letter with 31 other members of Congress to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy calling on the EPA to immediately improve the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) in the wake of the Flint water crisis.
Issues:
Health Care
May 20, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, met with leaders of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University’s Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) to discuss current research and exploration into the cause, effects and potential treatments for brain tumors.
Issues:
Health Care
May 17, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Co-Chair of the Transparency Caucus, offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2017 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill that would require the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to publish its reports on the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) website, serving as a one-stop shop for public information.
Issues:
Government Transparency
May 12, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a bipartisan resolution, H.Res.679, designating May 2016 as “National Brain Tumor Awareness Month,” when brain tumor advocates nationwide unite in awareness, outreach, and advocacy activities.
Issues:
Health Care
May 10, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), visited Loyola University Chicago to discuss migratory bird safety across the city and to learn what the university is doing to make buildings on its Lake Shore Campus more bird safe.
Issues:
Energy / Environment
May 10, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) announced Maat Bates from Latin School of Chicago as the winner of the Congressional Art Competition for Illinois’ Fifth Congressional District. Her watercolor painting of a woman, untitled, will hang in the United States Capitol complex for the following year.
April 29, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley announced that the Intelligence Committee advanced the bipartisan Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 by unanimous voice vote.
Issues:
Appropriations
April 28, 2016
U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley, Elizabeth Esty, Jim Himes and Joe Courtney introduced the Technical Education Creates High-Paying Careers (TECH Careers) Act, a bill to expand innovative community college and technical programs so more Americans can break into high-demand fields with good-paying careers.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs
Education
April 27, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley, joined by Representative Stephen F. Lynch and members of the bipartisan Quiet Skies Caucus, introduced H.R. 5075, the Airplane Impacts Mitigation (AIM) Act of 2016.