Mike Quigley represents the 5th district of Illinois. I read on his page that he passed the amendment as part of the Consolidated land, energy and aquatic resources act...it will require oil and gas companies to pay royalties on all oil that is leaked from a well, including spilled oil.
I found the congressman a very down to earth cool guy...i honestly didn't think he would be like this. I've had a past experience on a trip that i took with my school to Springfield were some of the people from the house of representatives acted very rude and showed that even though they supposedly are very educated..have no education at all and don't know how to treat people.
but i found the congressman to be a very humble person and i think its rare to see that.
i learned a lot of things about him..he often participates in local clean-up and restoration efforts, which i think is very cool because he shows that he cares about the environment and he shows that he cares about Chicago and the people. To me this was a very interesting thing because often, people let their position get to their head and they forget about the people and the places that made them who they are...so he really made a good impression to me.
Mike Quigley is also known to be the "greenest" governor, something i personally found very nice...usually with politicians you will find that hey are very self centered and they are only interested in things that will either bring them money or benefit them in some way.
By helping clean up our streets once in a while and showing he cares about the environment, whether it's for personal interest, to be liked by the citizens and be popular or whether he really cares about the environment..i still think it's really cool he does it because how often can you say you see a congressman volunteering to help clean the streets?
We got to ask the congressman a couple questions...he told us about his experience visiting our troops in Iraq...i was very interested in what he had to say because i have great respect for the man and women who put their life on the line every day for us, making sure that we are safe.
Sadly, he said it was very harsh to actually go and see them because the government wants to put a face to the people to hide what really is going on..he said many of the soldiers were going a little crazy from the war and many of the had lost their legs or their arms..and the government didn't really allow them to talk because i guess they don't want the citizens back home to know or "see" the bad side of the war.
The congressman was also asked to give his opinion about the president and if he thought he would be reelected...He seemed to like the current president and he talked very good about him arguing that he probably would be reelected because he hasn't "majorly screwed up..in my opinion he has...he promised to bring the troops back in a year...it's been long after one year and instead of bringing the troops back home, he's planning to send more troops to Iraq...he also has not improved our economy much..in fact i think things have gotten even worse since he came into office. (but that's just my opinion)
Once we went back to the campus, we talked about major Richard M. Daley and his father.
we discussed about how they have been part of Chicago since the 60's and how they have improved the city and how they have also made mistakes that have affected it.
Many people don't like the mayor because they say he has made bad decisions for Chicago and that he is not doing his job right...i think that he is a good mayor but i also think in some ways he isn't...but nobody is perfect.
I think Chicago is the beautiful city that it is today because of the mayor both Senior and Junior...even if they haven't always made the right decisions, they still have made the city a much more nicer place to live and if you look at Chicago's history, you can definitely see the great changes that have occurred.
At the end of class we had pizza and we got a chance to meet some of the other students from Loyola and staff.
It was very thoughtful from our teachers to have actually planned this and it was very nice.
we got to know people a little bit better and know what they are doing...it was really cool to find out that some students are doing a project about homeless people and it was interesting to find out what they thought about it.
they also got to ask the summer scholars (us) some questions and they learned a bit more about us and why we decided to take the urban field studies class.
Something that i took from today was having the pleasure to meet great people and to learn more about them.
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