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October 30, 2015
Every year American taxpayers spend more than $100 million to produce original, top-notch policy research for federal lawmakers. The reports issued by the Congressional Research Service are unclassified and nonpartisan—a remarkably useful set of factual distillations of everything from the Pentagon's budget to an election in Haiti. And the public doesn’t have direct access to them.
October 28, 2015
Reps. Quigley, Price, DeLauro, Lowey and Kelly joined 110 democratic colleagues in urging House leadership to end the longstanding de facto ban on federal funding for gun violence research.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
October 28, 2015
Rep. Quigley introduced the bipartisan Taxpayer Receipt Act, legislation that would provide each American with an itemized tax receipt showing how taxpayer dollars are spent, as well as how much the federal government is borrowing in their name.
Issues:
Government Transparency
October 28, 2015
Rep.Mike Quigley recognized LGBT activist and leader, Henry Gerber, on the House floor in honor of LGBT History Month.
Issues:
LGBTQI+ Rights
October 27, 2015
Rep. Mike Quigley urged his colleagues on the House floor to consider bipartisanship compromise over politics in the wake of the debt ceiling crisis.
October 27, 2015
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Dist. 5) joined Reps. John Carney (D-DE), Sean Duffy (R-WI) and Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) in introducing the SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015 late last week.The legislation would set up an Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation and formalizes a Small Business Advisory Committee, giving small businesses a voice and a line of communication with regulators and lawmakers.
October 26, 2015
Rep. Quigley took his “Mike on the Move” transportation initiative to Bensenville, Illinois with Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Acting Administrator Sarah Feinberg to tour a rail congestion mitigation project.
Issues:
Appropriations
October 26, 2015
U.S. Reps. Dan Lipinski (D-Dist. 3) and Mike Quigley (D-Dist. 5) joined leaders of the passenger- and freight-rail industry recently in urging Congress to take immediate action to extend the upcoming deadline for implementing positive train control (PTC) safety technology and prevent a shutdown of the nation’s passenger- and freight-rail systems.
October 23, 2015
Reps. Quigley, Carney, Duffy and Crenshaw, introduced the SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015, which would establish an Office of Small Business Advocate at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs
October 22, 2015
Reps. Quigley and Lance held a bipartisan briefing to discuss the distribution of non-confidential Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports to the public during International Open Access Week.
Issues:
Government Transparency