Quigley Joins Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior

Statement

This week, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) was elected to serve as a Member of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agency Subcommittee on Appropriations. A Member of the House Appropriations Committee for six years, Rep. Quigley also serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) and as a Member of the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD).

"As a lifelong environmentalist and Vice-Chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), I'm thrilled for the opportunity to serve on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agency Subcommittee," said Rep. Quigley. "The Interior Subcommittee's work with the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Interior is vital in ensuring those agencies serve the American people and our environment by acting as responsible stewards of our shared natural heritage. Under the Trump Administration, the Interior Subcommittee has the added responsibility of providing oversight of leadership at EPA and DOI that at many times seems hostile to the very missions of the agencies they run. I take this responsibility seriously and look forward to standing with Subcommittee Chairwoman McCollum and my colleagues in defense of all Americans' right to clean air, water, and land."

The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the following:

Department of the Interior (except Bureau of Reclamation and Central Utah Project)
Environmental Protection Agency
Related Agencies
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (HHS)
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Commission of Fine Arts
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality
Forest Service (USDA)
Indian Health Service
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
National Capital Planning Commission
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities (except Institute of Museum and Library Services)
National Gallery of Art
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (HHS, formerly EPA/Superfund)
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation
Presidio Trust
Smithsonian Institution
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Eisenhower Memorial Commission
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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