Mike Quigley

I want to associate myself with the remarks the Chairman made about the tragedy in Baltimore and the families who lost loved ones there.

I think we have the right team in place. Very important hearing and well done.

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.

I am just back from a third trip to Ukraine during the war, and, yes, we saw evidence of Putin's war crimes--the mass graves and evidence of torture, religious persecution, and kidnapping of children. It reminds us that throughout our…

I want to follow up. In a hearing we had last week, I talked to the GPO Director, Mr. Halpern, about the implementation of access to congressionally mandated reports, a bill I was proud to sponsor. It has bipartisan support.

We have been very pleased with the success so far.

I am from Chicago. We can visit them.

Chairman, do you want to have them all testify so that we can just ask any of them? Just a suggestion.

I guess the short question is, just tell us a little bit about that process.

That is how we are going to contain costs and move forward exponentially.

General, it is invasive carp day here at E&W. And, as you well know, the risk in the Great Lakes to the ecosystems and the economies is at stake here.

A century ago, the philosopher George Santayana wrote that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Today, in America, we are faced with this very dilemma. We have seen attempts by the ultraconservatives to rewrite…

Once again, President Zelenskyy is in Washington to make the case for the survival of his country and to show the American people and Congress why this war is so important. He shouldn't have to. As Americans, we have experienced fighting…

I ask my colleagues to remember history. Over 80 years ago, the Greatest Generation fought the Second World War to keep tyrants from taking over the free world. They fought for freedom and democracy. Today, we must honor their sacrifice by…

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…

Again, it has to be pointed that there is a level of being completely ridiculous that two straight White men are debating all the issues of equality and equity as if we have faced them all our lives. We can't be the judge or the jury in…

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 New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 74 Offered by Mr. Self The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

It is clearly our responsibility to hold people accountable. There are a number of ways to do that: call them to testify, question them all day long, say whatever you want in public within reason. It is quite another thing to make it so…

Just for reference, the last statement made--this is the first administration in my lifetime that has passed a comprehensive infrastructure bill of this magnitude. To suggest that it is going the opposite direction while supporting a bill…

We were quoting Dickens before. There is a line in Shakespeare. I will let somebody else fill in the rest of the lines. ``It is a tale . . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'' We are the first generation to feel the effects of…

No one remembers who Edward Everett is. He spoke for a couple hours at Gettysburg. That speaks for itself. There really doesn't need to be much in response to those who deny that climate is an existential threat, so I will just say two…

The Keynesian economics, I guess, aside, the gruel belongs wherever the gruel belongs, but public safety belongs to everyone else. It is not just the trucking industry, it is the people who are involved in those injuries, as well. We need…

According to data from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System and Crash Report Sampling System, heavy vehicles are involved in about 77,000 crashes a year, resulting in over 500 fatalities and almost 34,000 injuries. NHTSA estimates…

Let us go back to the reality of the situation. I live in a transit-oriented development. I can walk 15 seconds outside my front door, get on the Red Line, and go downtown in Chicago, and I do. Many people do. There is a reason we…

This amendment, which would very broadly prohibit funding for transit-oriented development, ``so-called'' because that is what it is called, is yet another example of vague and sweeping overreach. Communities in all of our districts rely…