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January 9, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), along with 18 other original cosponsors, including Rep. Dave Joyce (OH-14), Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY-25), and Rep. Sandy Levin (MI-09), introduced bipartisan legislation that would formally authorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) at $300 million for the next five years.
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January 9, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) joined 78 other House members to introduce the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), a bill to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and ensure that all legally-married, same-sex couples are treated equally under federal law.
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LGBTQI+ Rights
January 8, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley stood up against the Keystone Pipeline ahead of another ill-advised vote to approve it.
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January 7, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley spoke about the honor of skating with the USA Warriors and their tribute to Clint Reif at the 2015 Winter Classic.
January 5, 2015
What impact is U.S. investment in foreign aid having in far off, foreign countries? In D.C., we receive statistics about the impact of aid, but never get a face or a name of those affected by our help. Traveling to Cambodia, the largest single beneficiary of U.S. aid in maternal and neonatal health, changed that. That’s where we met Navy, a 30-year-old woman who lives with her 6-year-old daughter, Davin in Phnom Penh.
December 28, 2014
Malik, who lives in the impoverished, high-crime Englewood neighborhood on the South Side with his mother and two sisters, had only one wish this year when he participated in a local charity’s annual Letters to Santa program. It wasn’t electronics, nor clothes, nor games. “All I ask for is for safety. I just wanna be safe,” Malik wrote earlier this month.
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Gun Violence Prevention
December 23, 2014
"Today's official policy change by the FDA on blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM) from a lifetime ban to one-year deferral is disappointing. A time-based deferral focusing solely on men who have sex with men is still discriminatory and fails to exclude donors based on actual risk factors."
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LGBTQI+ Rights
December 23, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policy change of the blood donor deferral policy for men who have sex with men (MSM) from lifetime ban to one-year deferral.
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LGBTQI+ Rights
December 18, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) worked alongside Bittersweet Pastry Shop employees to help them prepare holiday orders by working in the cookie decorating room, mixing cake batter, finishing cupcakes and serving customers as part of his Undercover Congressman series.
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Economy and Jobs
December 15, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Tom Harkin (D-IA), and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), led a letter with 75 of their congressional colleagues calling on Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell to replace the outdated and discriminatory lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM) with a policy based on individual risk factors.
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LGBTQI+ Rights