WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)--co-founder and co-chair of the Senate's first-ever Environmental Justice Caucus--issued the following statement after the Biden Administration's Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) took action to include strong climate change and environmental justice considerations in its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) final update to Phase II regulations. Senato  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Ranking Member on the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, questioned Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg during a subcommittee hearing on the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request. Quigley questioned Buttigieg about DOT's Emergency Relief fund in light of the Francis Scott Key Brid  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, U.S. Representatives Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), Mike Bost (R-IL-12) and Rick Crawford (R-AR-01) introduced the Better Outfitting Our Troops (BOOTS) Act - bipartisan legislation to ensure that all of our military personnel's footwear is made in the United States in line with critical safety standards. Despite the Berry Amendment, which requires the military to give preference to d  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a final rule to require automatic emergency braking systems to meet baseline safety standards in all new cars: "This is not hyperbole--thousan  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Illinois, issued the following statement on April 30, 2024: * * * As a Congressional representative, I am deeply committed to peace and justice both domestically and internationally, and I am particularly concerned about the ongoing violence between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, where thousands of innocent civilians, especially Palestinians, are bearing the brunt of brutal, unfathomable violence. While Israel has a legitimate right to defend itse  more