Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) continued her work to advocate for safe and legal abortion care by supporting policies to expand access to this life-saving health care for veterans. In a Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing, Underwood emphasized her support for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) new interim final rule that allows VA to provide abortion counseling and abortion care in cases of incest, rape, or when the health or life of the mother is endangered.
WEST CHICAGO – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) and U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh led a town hall with northern Illinois labor leaders at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union hall in Batavia. Underwood and Secretary Walsh discussed the Biden-Harris administration’s work to bring good-paying jobs to the 14th District, tackle climate change, and protect the rights of workers.
WEST CHICAGO – Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) will host an August town hall series in Naperville, Batavia, and DeKalb. These town hall meetings serve as an opportunity for Underwood to share updates on her work in Congress, including legislation she has passed that cuts costs for the 14th District, the $10.5 million she secured in Community Project Funding, and her Health Care Affordability Act, which will lower health care costs for northern Illinois families.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) applauds the inclusion of the Health Care Affordability Act, her signature legislation to lower health care premium costs, in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The Inflation Reduction Act is historic legislation that will reduce health care and prescription drug costs, fight inflation, make corporations pay their fair share, and tackle the climate crisis.
WEST CHICAGO – Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) toured three Hispanic-owned small businesses in Plano and Oswego to learn about how federal and local resources have helped them overcome challenges they have faced over the course of the pandemic and recovery.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) voted to pass the CHIPS and Science Act, a transformative legislative package to supercharge American production of semiconductor chips, strengthen supply chains, increase American manufacturing, and advance U.S. scientific excellence and research.
WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Ami Bera (CA-07), Kathy Castor (FL-14), and Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) introduced the Improving DATA in Public Health Act. The legislation would modernize the country’s public health data infrastructure by facilitating the safe and secure transfer of critical health data, improving coordination between federal, state, and local agencies, and helping the nation prepare for, identify, and respond to public health emergencies.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) voted to pass a package of six government funding bills, which focus on helping families and communities in northern Illinois.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) voted to pass the Right to Contraception Act, legislation which she helped introduce. The Right to Contraception Act protects the right to obtain and use contraception. By overturning Roe, the ultra-conservative Supreme Court paved the way for legal challenges to the right to contraception, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment’s right to privacy.
WASHINGTON – On Friday, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) voted to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act to protect reproductive freedoms nationwide. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe, this legislation will protect the right to an abortion, and stop plans by Republican lawmakers to implement a nationwide ban to criminalize abortion in all 50 states. They’ve even threatened to criminalize birth control, in-vitro fertilization, and miscarriage care.