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March 2, 2017
President Donald Trump backed Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Facebook post Thursday night, blaming the controversy on Democrats who, he wrote, "have lost their grip on reality."
March 1, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) pressed the Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) for strong and continued support for the construction of the McCook Reservoir Project in a letter to Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Douglas Lamont. An allocation of additional funding by the Corps is necessary to meet the December 31, 2017 deadline for completion of Stage 1 of the McCook Reservoir, which is required by the project’s consent decree between the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Energy / Environment
March 1, 2017
Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s first joint address to Congress last night:
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February 28, 2017
Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves as Vice Chair of the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC), led his SEEC colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson following a recent public statement made by his successor as Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, Darren Woods, regarding the validity and urgency of climate change action. Tillerson served as Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil from January 2006 to December 2016.
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February 28, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) will bring Zarna Patel, a second-year medical student at Loyola University in Chicago and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipient, as his guest to President Trump’s first joint address to Congress.
Issues:
Immigration
February 27, 2017
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) introduced the PROTECT Immigration Act to block a key component of President Trump's January 25 executive order on immigration. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is the lead sponsor of the Senate companion bill.
Issues:
Immigration
February 27, 2017
The House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian intervention in the U.S. election suffers from two critical flaws that handicap its work. And that’s from one of the lawmakers leading the investigation.
February 24, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement in response to new reports that the Trump Administration asked the FBI to make public statements in an attempt to minimize an investigation into the Administration's Russian ties:
February 23, 2017
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves as Vice Chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus and was a founding member of the Transgender Equality Task Force, released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced their decision to rescind the Obama Administration’s Title IX guidance protecting the rights of transgender students:
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LGBTQI+ Rights
February 23, 2017
President Donald Trump, who said during his campaign he did not care which bathroom Caitlin Jenner used at Trump Tower, is facing fallout on Thursday in the wake of his administration yanking federal protections for transgender students.
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LGBTQI+ Rights