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January 17, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s recommendations to curb the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program.
Issues:
Government Transparency
January 17, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Transit Authority President Forrest Claypool today said that as the only transit system currently accepted into the FTA’s Core Capacity Program, the CTA is poised to benefit from the infusion of funding included in the FY 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which was passed on a bipartisan Senate vote yesterday and now moves to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
Issues:
Transportation
January 15, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) urges Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to stop workplace discrimination against the LGBT community and promote equal rights for all Americans.
Issues:
LGBTQI+ Rights
January 15, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the $23.7 million cut to proposed spending for the B61 nuclear bomb program contained in the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Issues:
Defense & National Security
January 15, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement regarding the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which passed the House by a vote of 359-67.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs
Transportation
January 14, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) led an effort with nine of his Illinois congressional colleagues urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to bring fairness to the Chicago-area housing market by increasing the Chicago conforming loan limit rate to match other high-cost housing markets.
January 14, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) pushes Congress to first pass a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants before considering other piecemeal immigration reform measures.
Issues:
Immigration
January 13, 2014
The disparity long has stuck in the craw of the local residential real estate industry, which argues that the lower level for government-secured mortgages here dampens home sales in expensive neighborhoods and suburbs, forces buyers to take out multiple loans and has slowed the housing recovery.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs
January 13, 2014
Residential noise complaints involving jets at O'Hare International Airport hit a record in 2013, which included a spike in objections just after a runway opened in the fall, according to a new city report.
January 10, 2014
The village applied for the grant in September 2013. U. S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-5), who serves on the House Appropriations Committee, pushed for the village to get the grant.