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Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Common Ground
Cost
Crucial
Disservice
Principles
Representing
Defending
Entertain
Fundamental
Passionately
Refusing
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We must not let politicians who believe they are above the Constitution interfere with the personal health decisions of women. It is the job of a woman, not a politician, to make informed decisions about her own pregnancy.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Pregnancy
Informed
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Everyone without extraordinary research skills ought to be able to know what is happening inside the government, how it operates, where their tax dollars are going. Then they can make better decisions in the electoral process.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Dollars
Electoral Process
Extraordinary
Ought
Research
Skills
Tax Dollars
Tax
Decisions
Electoral
Happening
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Inhumane treatment of the undocumented cannot be rewarded with repeated budget increases. It goes against our country's most fundamental values and cannot continue. We must cut I.C.E.s budgets until these concerns are addressed.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Inhumane
Treatment
Budget
Concerns
Fundamental
Increases
Repeated
Rewarded
Undocumented
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Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Color
Havoc
Shaving
Forms
Collective
Communities
Disproportionately
Life Country Way
Million
Million Years
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Without the U.S. leading the way in trade negotiations, we likely will see irreversible damage to our environment and widespread abuse of labor and human rights, all while we lose out on the opportunity to expand our economy and create jobs.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Abuse
Damage
Human Rights
Irreversible
Labor
Expand
Widespread
Negotiations
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Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate security threats the United States faces.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Faces
Nuclear
Nuclear Bomb
Bomb
Pretend
Immediate
Threats
Wooden
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Because of restrictions on abortion access in their own state, many women in neighboring states are forced to travel hundreds of miles and cross state lines to seek an abortion. However, their rights should not have to depend on their zip code.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Abortion
Code
Miles
Cross
Depend
Forced
Hundreds
Seek
Neighboring
Restrictions
Zip
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Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Trust
Capitol
Congress
Giving
Laundry
Messy
Opening
Sunday
Best Your May
Certainly
Dome
Earned
However
Inner
Showing
Workings
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We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better and nations more secure, meaning our commitments overseas also makes us stronger and safer here at home.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Communism
Defeated
Expanding
Secure
Stronger
Commitments
Economic Opportunity
Safer
Showing
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The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Forty
Guarantees
Jeopardy
Wade
Daughters
Forty Years
Reproductive
Roe
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Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Cold
Cold War
Hiding
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Primary School
Protection
Strategy
Threat
Imminent
Recognized
Seemingly
Wooden
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What America really needs is a long-term bill that makes significant investments in our transportation infrastructure and reforms the highway trust fund to ensure it remains solvent for years to come. This will require bold ideas and a bipartisan effort.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Bipartisan
Fund
Infrastructure
Long Term
Remains
Significant
Transportation
Bold
Ensure
Highway
Investments
Reforms
Require
Solvent
Trust Fund
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There is no doubt that blood must be screened in order to keep Americans safe and healthy and I am committed to working with the FDA to ensure a safe, secure blood supply, across the board. However, public policy must always be rooted in the facts, not fear.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Committed
Fda
No Doubt
Public Policy
Rooted
Secure
Board
Ensure
Screened
Supply
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Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Elderly
Income
Retirement
Social Security
Live Poverty More
Below
Poverty Line
Quarter
Retirement Income
Social Security Benefits
Striking
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I think it can be very safe to go to O'Hare and Wrigley and Sox park and Soldier Field, but you have to deal with some reality. Just because a threat is not specific and verifiable doesn't mean nearly what it used to mean, in terms of you being able to sleep well at night.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Soldier
Park
Sox
Verifiable
Wrigley
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The FDA first began prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the risk from blood transfusion was just beginning to be understood. In the decades to follow, the 'lifetime ban' was left largely unchanged.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Aids
Crisis
Decades
Fda
Height
Lifetime
Ban
Men Gay Bisexual
Largely
Unchanged
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Despite the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in our presidential election, President Donald Trump and Republican leadership seem wholly uninterested in examining how and why Russia targeted us - and what we must do to prevent it from happening again.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Assessment
Despite
Election
Examining
Presidential
Presidential Election
Russia
Uninterested
Donald
Donald Trump
Interfered
Targeted
Wholly
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Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Chicago
Debate
Ethics
Newspapers
Pages
Public Trust
Scandal
Deteriorate
Disrupt
Local
Stumble
Undermine
Violations
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We've seen it again and again. From civil rights to women's rights to marriage rights, this country has reinvented itself in the quest to make real the transcendent values that Lincoln proclaimed in his historic address - that all men are created equal in a nation conceived in liberty.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Civil Rights
Historic
Transcendent
Men Women Marriage
Conceived
Reinvented
Women Men Marriage
Lincoln
Proclaimed
Quest
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The policies we debate and enact in Congress have a real impact on people across the country. Climate change, immigration, economic inequality - each of these issues have become hot button, partisan topics, but support or opposition on these pressing issues shouldn't come down to party.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Climate
Climate Change
Congress
Debate
Economic
Immigration
Inequality
Issues
Topics
Across
Button
Enact
Partisan
Policies
Pressing
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While the FAST Act is a significant bipartisan accomplishment that provides much-needed funding certainty, this modest increase in funding is hardly the bold, forward-thinking plan our country needs to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create a 21st-century transportation system.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Accomplishment
Bipartisan
Certainty
Crumbling
Funding
Infrastructure
Modest
Significant
Transportation
Bold
Hardly
Rebuild
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As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Advocating
Child Care
Equal Pay
Maternity
My Time
Ongoing
Reproductive
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Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Conclusion
Elected Officials
Important Decisions
Officials
Save The World
Politics Enough World
Elected
Ironically
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In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Approach
Chicago
Decline
Hopkins
Independent
Multiple
Percent
Public Health
Communities
Cure
Nationwide
Soon
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We didn't build the modern country to be bike-friendly - our initial round of infrastructure was not designed to think about how to get around if you're not in a car. So we've got to be targeting resources, both nationally and locally, to how people are going to get around in the new world.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Infrastructure
New World
Designed
Round
Initial
Locally
Targeting
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For decades, allies have counted on the U.S. to step up to the plate to work with them to protect the shared values we hold dear. As we face numerous international challenges, both old and new, we need to put more faith and investment in our international and diplomatic institutions, not weaken them.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Allies
Dear
Diplomatic
Institutions
Investment
Counted
Numerous
Plate
Shared
Weaken
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If nothing else, the cyber attacks that occurred during the 2016 presidential election have laid bare the very real vulnerabilities that exist across our government and the private sector. Imagine the harm that could be done if our enemies ever hack into the Department of Defense or Homeland Security.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Cyber
Defense
Department
Election
Harm
Homeland
Homeland Security
Presidential
Presidential Election
Private Sector
Attacks
Bare
Enemies
Hack
Laid
Occurred
Sector
Vulnerabilities
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Anytime a member of Congress wants to travel abroad - which we do from time to time as part of our official duties - we are required to check with the House Committee on Ethics as to whether the trip follows the ethics rules by which federally elected officials are bound. Not so with Supreme Court justices.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Elected Officials
Ethics
Supreme
Supreme Court
Abroad
Anytime
Bound
Check
Committee
Duties
Elected
Follows
From Time To Time
Justices
Member
Official
Required
Trip
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Everything is connected, so you can't just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you're managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn't work in the real world... it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Cutting
Mentality
Real World
Spite
District
Congressional
Nose
One Area
Punish
The Real World
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President Trump's frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account as a means of official communication is unprecedented. If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Communication
Public Policy
Social Media
Statements
Unprecedented
Account
Documented
Ensure
Frequent
Official
Preserved
Reference
Sudden
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The fact that Turkey, the U.S., and Russia and other countries are really interested in Cyprus because of its strategic location... the fact that Russians launder their money there to avoid sanctions, and the fact that key U.S. and Russia players were there - all make it really important for the Russia investigation.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Cyprus
Investigation
Location
Other Countries
Russia
Sanctions
Strategic
Turkey
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There was a time not too long ago when American seniors were too often forced to go without food, medicine, and quality healthcare. But thanks to transformative programs like Social Security, most seniors in this country are provided the opportunity to live with the stability and peace of mind they have earned and deserve.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Deserve
Healthcare
Medicine
Peace Of Mind
Social Security
Stability
Thanks
Earned
Forced
Programs
Provided
Seniors
Transformative
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Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Approach
Concern
Former
Pioneering
Public Health
Violence
Dr
Efforts
Epidemic
Generals
Health Problem
Large
Large Part
National
Recognized
Surgeon
Treat
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With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Certainty
Coverage
Equitable
Federal Government
Pension
Promise
Social Security
Workforce
Earned
Work Hard
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