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Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05), Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (MI-14), Bobby Scott (VA-3), and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) heard testimony from law enforcement officials, victims of gun violence, and academic experts on the devastating effects of the Gun Show Loophole, a gap in federal law that allows private gun dealers to sell weapons to anyone – including terrorists, felons, and the mentally disabled – without performing background checks.

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) joined Reps. Luis V. Gutierrez and Jan Schakowsky, as well as dignitaries, Holocaust survivors, and diplomats at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie to mark the recent announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the U.S. government would invest $15 million in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in Poland to preserve and maintain the site of one of the most notorious death camps of the Holocaust.

"Chicago and the nation have lost a political giant."

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) voted to help pass a measure that will provide municipal governments across Illinois with much-needed relief to save jobs for teachers and support Medicaid providers.

Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) released a copy of a letter they sent to President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the Commissioners of the Joint Commission urging Canada to reexamine its oil drilling policies in the Great Lakes. The two Congressmen were joined by 20 other representatives in recommending that Canada institute a ban on oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes, as the United States has done.

"This country is always moving in the direction of greater equality and greater fairness."