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Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL5]
U.S. Representative, Illinois’s 5th District

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State:Illinois [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Oct 17, 1958 / 51 years old

To contact Mike Quigley, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Quigley for more biographical and issue information.

Congressional Service

Mike Quigley has represented Illinois’s 5th congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Mike Quigley:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIllinois’s 5th
(was preceeded by Rahm Emanuel)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Quigley is a moderate Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Quigley is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Quigley tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Quigley’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Quigley, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Quigley and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Quigley.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Quigley's bills without Quigley returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordMike Quigley missed 9 (1%) of 846 votes since Apr 21, 2009. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Mike Quigley sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Quigley’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 936: Honoring the citizen-soldiers of the Army National Guard of the State of Illinois, including the 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Illinois Army National Guard, which recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan.
H.Res. 512: Expressing sympathy for the victims and victims' families of Air France Flight 447.
H.R. 2954: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive certain requirements under the visa waiver program for an additional 2 years.
H.Res. 614: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit earmarks to for-profit entities.
H.R. 3427: State Ethics Law Protection Act of 2009

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