Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced that $12,662,536 in Community Project Funding that she previously secured for Illinois’s 14th District in the 2024 appropriations bills has been finalized. This funding, included in the first of the appropriations government funding packages, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in Illinois’ 14th District.
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).
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. Community leader, Co-Founder and Co-Host of the Earn Your Leisure (EYL) media network, Rashad Bilal, will join Underwood in Washington for the address.
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. Over three days of bilateral meetings, panels, and discussions, Underwood emphasized the importance of America’s continued support for our allies and our commitment to global security and peace.
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. The CDC’s Climate and Health Program has historically been the only federal program that directly funds the state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments on the front lines of addressing climate change.
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. Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death for young people ages 10-24.
WASHINGTON – Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) celebrated the release of new data showing that 21.3 million people signed up for Marketplace health care coverage during the 2023
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. A historic 20 million Americans have already signed up for coverage during this enrollment period, thanks to Underwood’s Health Care Affordability Act.
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 Chicago communities.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement on the three-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.