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Press Releases

March 8, 2024

WASHINGTON – This week, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) urgently called for investments in maternal health in response to a new report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

March 6, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced her Honored Guest for President Biden’s State of the Union Address to Congress on Thursday, March 7th.

February 26, 2024

MUNICH – Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) joined a Congressional Delegation to Munich, Germany this weekend to convene with counterparts in the German Bundestag and participate in the 2024 Munich Security Conference.

February 26, 2024

WASHINGTON— Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) introduced the Climate and Health Protection Act to strengthen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Climate and Health Program.

February 14, 2024

WASHINGTON – Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act, legislation that addresses suicide among children and young adults by providing evidence-based training to current and future health care professionals.

January 16, 2024

JOLIET – Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) visited the new VNA Health Care Joliet Clinic to discuss local efforts to get people in the community signed up for marketplace health coverage from the Affordable Care Act during the Open Enrollment period.

January 12, 2024

JOLIET – Today, in a letter to the Biden Administration, Representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Bill Foster (IL-11), Sean Casten (IL-06) and other Members of the Illinois delegation wrote to express Illinois’ urgent and continued need for federal support to address the ongoing influx of asylum-seekers arriving in suburban Chi

January 6, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement on the three-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.  

December 15, 2023

JOLIET – Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced that Illinois Valley Community College (IVCC) will receive $889,855 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants Program.