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U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves as co-chair and co-founder of the Congressional Transparency Caucus and is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, released the following statement after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced it will be making visitor logs to President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort public starting this fall. In March, Rep.
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2018 Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Subcommittee appropriations bill to increase funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) to the FY17 enacted level of $385 million. The FY18 CJS bill only includes $300 million for LSC, while President Trump wanted to completely eliminated the program.
Below are Rep. Quigley's opening remarks on the amendment, as prepared for delivery:
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves as a member of the House Appropriations Committee and as Vice Chair of the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC), offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2018 Energy and Water Development Subcommittee appropriations bill moving $921 million from nuclear weapons to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Below are his remarks on the amendment, as prepared for delivery.