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Mar 22, 2016
Press Release
Reps Quigley and Issa held a bipartisan briefing to discuss the implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) and the challenges Congress faces as it works to bring greater transparency to the federal budget process.
Mar 22, 2016
Speeches
Rep. Quigley urged his colleagues on the House floor to end the partisan quarreling that inhibits Congress and take the high road of compromise and bipartisanship in order to effectively govern our nation.
Mar 22, 2016
Editorials
“I look with increasing horror, along with a growing number of other Americans, at the great and bitter division that is taking place in our politics, and the cynicism that is the end result of power for power’s sake. We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.”
Mar 22, 2016
Editorials
In America, most of us are lucky enough to take our clean drinking water for granted. We think of contaminated drinking water as a problem that happens to other people in remote parts of the world. However, the recent crisis in Flint, Michigan, has forced us to recognize that these problems can also crop up close to home. As we celebrate World Water Day today, let's consider the threat our aging water infrastructure poses to our clean drinking water right here at home, and what we can do about it.
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Mar 18, 2016
Press Release
Rep. Quigley a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), praised new measures released by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) this week that will ensure better performance standards for non-motorized modes of transportation
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Mar 17, 2016
Press Release
Reps Quigley and Duckworth today introduced a comprehensive legislative approach to address the nationwide contaminated drinking water crisis brought to light by ongoing problems with the public water supply in Flint, Michigan.
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Mar 16, 2016
Press Release
Rep. Quigley released the following statement in response to President Obama nominating Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court:
Mar 9, 2016
Press Release
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin wrote to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Craig Fugate today to ask that the agency “quickly initiate…a nationwide study focusing on the prevalence, causes, and costs of urban flooding.”
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Mar 3, 2016
Press Release
U.S. Reps Mike Quigley, Leonard Lance, along with Senators Patrick Leahy and John McCain introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Equal Access to Congressional Research Service Reports Act in an effort to increase transparency and access to non-confidential Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports.
Mar 3, 2016
Press Release
Representative Mike Quigley joined U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Robert Menendez and U.S. Representative Keith Ellison in introducing the Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2016, legislation to protect children in affordable housing from lead poisoning by requiring the Department of Housing and Urban Development to adopt prevention measures and update its lead regulations to protect children from the risk of lead exposure.