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Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Vice-Chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, spoke from the floor of the House of Representatives to praise President Joe Biden's executive action to begin the process of re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement and to emphasize the need for urgent legislative action in support of the President's climate plan.
Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05), Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), and Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) led a letter to incoming DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to request that the Biden administration reject the proposed changes by the Trump administration's FEMA that threaten to divert funding in the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) away from cities that rely on the funds to keep Americans safe. Under the proposed new procedures, there will be no guaranteed minimum allotments for cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles for the first time.
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) reintroduced the Big Cat Public Safety Act to prohibit the private ownership of big cats like tigers, lions, leopards, and pumas and end the abusive cub petting industry.
Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after Joe Biden signed more than a dozen executive orders to confront the coronavirus pandemic head-on, lead the fight against the climate crisis, and rollback President Trump's most harmful policies:
"When President Biden said, ‘help is on the way,' he meant it. The Biden administration wasted no time getting to work for the American people and providing our nation with much-needed leadership.
Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after Joe Biden was sworn-in as the 46th President of the United States of America and Kamala Harris was sworn-in as the Vice President of the United States:
"Today is a moment of hope for millions of Americans. After the darkness and division of the past four years, it was an incredible relief to hear President Biden speak above all else of unity.
First and foremost, I want to thank each and every one of you who have reached out in recent days to offer your support and check on the well-being of my staff and I. While I am fortunate enough to have come through last Wednesday's events unscathed, I remain shocked and appalled by what took place.
Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after voting in support of impeaching President Donald Trump:
"Today, I voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time.
Today, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and James Comer (R-KY), the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act, to increase access to transparency regarding the federal government's expenditure of taxpayer dollars, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 412-2.
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Fred Upton (R-MI), today re-introduced a bipartisan bill, the Preventing Future Pandemics Act, which would direct the State Department to work with international partners to shut down commercial wildlife markets, end the trade in live wildlife for human consumption and stop the associated wildlife trade, end the import, export and sale of live wildlife for human consumption in the United States, and phase out demand for wildlife as a food source.
Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Chairman of the Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed legislation to provide relief to American families amidst the ongoing COVID-19 and economic crises: