Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Lauren Underwood's (IL-14) bipartisan legislation to improve maternal health care for veterans passed the Senate on October 7th with bipartisan support. The Senate version of the legislation is led by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME).
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) delivered a speech on the House floor on the critical importance of making the historic health care affordability expansion included in the American Rescue Plan permanent.
The Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA) is a landmark bill that guarantees the right to access abortion nationwide and aims to codify Roe V Wade
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) advocated for the implementation of her legislation, theLethal Means Safety Training Act, during a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing on veteran suicide prevention.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Unlawful Turn-aways Act to address the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) systemic denials of health care and services to veterans with general or other-than-honorable (OTH) administrative discharges.
WASHINGTON—This week, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood's (IL-14) legislation to make a historic investment in the U.S. nursing workforce passed out of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Future Advancement of Academic Nursing (FAAN) Act (H.R.
WASHINGTON—Today, Black Maternal Health Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Lauren Underwood (IL-14) and Rep. Alma Adams (NC-12) applauded the Energy and Commerce Committee for advancing critical investments from the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act (H.R. 959/S. 346) in the Committee's markup of the Build Back Better Act.
WEST CHICAGO – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) praised a new report from the Joint Economic Committee estimating that Child Tax Credit (CTC) advance payments benefitted 141,000 children from 87,000 families in Ill
WASHINGTON—Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) supported passage of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee's portion of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda, which makes critical investments in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) infrastructure.
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement announcing that she has successfully secured $10.2 million to improve Illinois National Guard facilities in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).