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Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, issued a joint statement with Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; and Representatives Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), and Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), following their meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov during their visit to Ukraine.

U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL), Vice-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, Mondaire Jones (D-NY), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to President Biden urging the administration to adopt a robust and coordinated federal response to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak. While the United States has ordered almost 7 million vaccine doses, the majority will not arrive for months, sounding alarms that needed doses won't be delivered in time to curb mass infection of communities impacted the most, especially LGBTQ+ Americans.

Today, the House passed funding legislation that included U.S. Representative Mike Quigley's (IL-05) provision to protect abortion access for federal workers and the residents of Washington, D.C. Quigley, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, amended his own legislation to include language that would prohibit any federal funds from his bill from being used in contravention to President Biden's executive order on protecting access to reproductive health care.

A provision offered by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Grace Meng (NY-06) to support the prevention of future pandemics was passed by the House of Representatives as part of the FY22 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendment is based on Quigley's Preventing Future Pandemics Act, which is aimed at decreasing the demand for wildlife as a food source to help prevent the next pandemic before it starts.

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after the assassination of Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Committee on Appropriations and Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, announced that the Appropriations Committee has approved all fifteen of the Chicago-area community projects that he submitted for funding consideration.

Today, U.S Representative Mike Quigley, Vice-Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environmental Coalition, released the below statement on the Supreme Court's decision to curb the EPA's authority to set climate standards for power plants.

The Quiet Skies Caucus, led by Co-Chairs Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Vice-Chairs Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY), today announced they secured four provisions to combat aircraft noise in the House's fiscal year 2023 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.