Mike Quigley: “There is virtually no likelihood that there is going to be any local opportunities to pick up the final costs of this.”

In communities across the country, including Chicagoland, urban flooding has a unique ability to wreak havoc in our communities, leaving Americans feeling helpless in the aftermath.

I'm worried about not just who controls the White House, but who controls the House and the Senate.

I would suggest the 400,000 are all in my district.

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…