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September 15, 2010
"At a time of limited resources, it is vital that all of our foreign contracts be held to the strictest scrutiny and utmost accountability."
Issues:
Government Transparency
August 27, 2010
District Office and FEMA may be able to offer federal assistance to those affected by recent flooding in Chicago.
August 24, 2010
The state has opened enrollment in the new Illinois Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (IPXP), which will provide health insurance to uninsured Illinois residents who have been denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
Issues:
Health Care
August 19, 2010
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.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
August 15, 2010
Every day hundreds of constituents write and call my office with questions about their social security benefits, help with obtaining a visa, and whether they are eligible for a home loan modification to name just a few.
August 11, 2010
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.
Issues:
Defense and Foreign Affairs
August 11, 2010
"Chicago and the nation have lost a political giant."
August 10, 2010
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.
Issues:
Education
August 6, 2010
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.
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