113th Congress
March 6, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 4152, a bipartisan bill making critical U.S. loan guarantees available for Ukraine.
Issues:
Defense and Foreign Affairs
March 6, 2014
Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to "duck-and-cover" for protection.
Issues:
Defense and Foreign Affairs
March 4, 2014
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Gary Peters (MI-14) called for a federal investigation to review the best practices for transporting and storing petroleum coke (petcoke) and to further study the potential health and environmental hazards associated with the oil tar sands by-product. Quigley and Peters sent a letter with nine of their colleagues to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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March 1, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) and a team of Chicago Blackhawks alumni and local celebrities faced off against the USA Warriors Standing Team in a hockey game.
Mike Quigley ha representado el quinto distrito de Illinois por más de 13 años.
February 27, 2014
Quigley and Polis say it amounts to punishing the victims when prisons replace the threat of physical and sexual abuse with the isolation and cruelty of solitary confinement.
Issues:
LGBTQI+ Rights
February 27, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) used his time in the Appropriations Committee hearing to question Commissioner John Koskinen on the steps the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is taking to help same-sex married couples file federal taxes.
Issues:
Appropriations
LGBTQI+ Rights
February 25, 2014
"The NHL tells the world that hockey's for everyone, well it's only for everyone if people have access."
February 25, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) joined House and Senate colleagues to send a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling on EPA to take more aggressive action to cut down on production HCFC-22, an industrial “super pollutant” that does 1,800 times more damage to the climate that carbon dioxide.
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February 25, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) congratulated Chicago’s UI LABS for winning a $70 million dollar grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) to fund the Digital Manufacturing and Design Institute, an applied research lab that will develop and distribute digital manufacturing technologies.
Issues:
Economy and Jobs