Mike Quigley: “I did talk about this directly with Secretary Carson, about this possibility. He expressed some enthusiasm, but we have…”

Again, in a moment of self-awareness, we are a bunch of straight White guys talking about social justice. When did a social justice agenda become a bad thing? Again, who am I to say, but weren't the leaders of the civil rights movement…

For those who did not know, we had a very strong bipartisan partnership during a time where we flipped and did both chair and ranking members of the FSGG subcommittee.

Safe, affordable, and accessible rail travel is critical to the success of Chicago and the Illinois region.

Now what? Yesterday, this body was prepared to pass a bipartisan spending bill to carry us into the new year and the new Congress. It was imperfect, yet it met many of our country's critical needs, especially disaster relief. Then, the…