Press Releases
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.
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.
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.
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
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement on the three-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14) and Alma Adams (NC-12) called on Congress to immediately pass the Momnibus Act at the Black Maternal Health Caucus 2023 Stakeholder Summit, held at the U.S. Capitol on August 1.