Mike Quigley

We have to make a determination of where our priorities are.

Lives are on the line. This is not parks, roads, bridges, or other areas which we take up at the Federal level.

The Federal Government has a critical role to play in supporting State and local communities as they work to combat the tragic consequences of addiction.

We have an epidemic, an opioid epidemic that requires a response from all levels of government.

Delays to treatment put lives at risk.

But you cut it in half, so you have got to--it cannot be a priority if you cut it in half.

We have just got to have some inclination. You have given us the lead on this that we do not care as much about public transportation.

You just took away half the funding for the Direct Grant Program.

Look, METRA and the Chicago Transit Authority are not worried about permitting.

Millennials are not buying cars. They are doing rideshares, they are riding bikes, and, thank God, they are using public transportation.

I do not see the boldness. I think you look at what you talked about, an aging infrastructure, but who is using what?

If these shelters, if these facilities need to know how to comply, just removing the existing instructions does not help.

There are particular groups that have been discriminated against more than others obviously and that is why you have the training materials.

When Senator Brown asked you a question during the confirmation process, she asked if you believed that HUD currently provides, and I will quote, 'extra rights to the LGBTQ people,' I am quoting, 'that need to be withdrawn.'

Respectfully, though, you talked about priorities being those most vulnerable.

I want to thank Chairman Shuster for his support. I want to thank the ranking member for his comments. And I want to thank all who have worked on this project for so long. We are getting close. I yield back the balance of my time. The…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois will be postponed. Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Wittman The Acting CHAIR. It is…

In the brief time I have, this doesn't gut the program. It brings it back to its 2015 acquisition schedule. Folks, we have to prioritize. We can't have three redundancies when we have cut homeland security money by 50 percent in the last 5…

Might I inquire how much time I have left? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Alabama has 2 minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 31, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $75,802,000)''. Page 170, line 7, after the…

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

It is inconceivable how such a top-tier, fully authorized flood protection project, 65 percent complete, and an active Federal construction, a 3-to-1 benefit-cost ratio, it is not just a Democratic project in Chicago, this is bipartisan…

Obviously, my colleagues in the Chicagoland area, including Senator Durbin and I, are deeply disappointed, a mild expression, in discussion with the McCook Reservoir and the funding there.

Simpson-Bowles, I believe, really only had one major vote on the House side, and that was Cooper-LaTourette...

The right to choice, the right for a woman to have control of her own body is guaranteed by the Constitution and has been for 40 years. Defunding Planned Parenthood will not change that. Instead, defunding Planned Parenthood would lead to…