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September 11, 2020

WASHINGTON— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood's (IL-14) legislation to address the veteran suicide crisis advanced in the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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September 10, 2020

WEST CHICAGO— Today, Representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Bill Foster (IL-11), and Sean Casten (IL-06) announced that the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program has awarded grant funding to organizations that provide youth substance use prevention programs in Naperville, McHenry County, and Will County.

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August 31, 2020

WASHINGTON— Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), and other Democratic members of the Illinois delegation urged Illinois' leading health insurers to provide financial relief to Illinois individuals, families, and small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.

August 27, 2020

WEST CHICAGO— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) celebrated the Department of Energy's recent announcement selecting Fermilab to lead one of t

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August 27, 2020

WASHINGTON—Today, Representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led a letter of 28 Members of Congress to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing their deep concern with a new rule which would weaken the EPA's ability to limit dangerous methane pollution from the oil and gas sector.

August 27, 2020

WEST CHICAGO— Today, Rep. Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement.

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August 25, 2020
WASHINGTON— Today, Rep. Lauren Underwood (IL-14) continued her work to address the veteran suicide crisis with new legislation to require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide lethal means training to VA staff and contractors who regularly interact with veterans.
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August 21, 2020

WASHINGTON— Ahead of Saturday's House vote on critical legislation to save the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement on her support for the Delivering for America Act (H.R. 8015), legislation that will be voted on in the House of Representatives Saturday, August 22.

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August 20, 2020

WEST CHICAGO— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced that she will hold in-person outdoor office hours on in Will, Lake, and DuPage counties. The office hours are a continuation in a series of in-person and virtual office hours to be held in each of the 14th District's seven counties during the month of August.

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August 19, 2020

WEST CHICAGO— Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) held a virtual discussion on election security and voting during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with the Illinois State Board of Elections. Underwood discussed the importance of securing elections from foreign adversaries and advocated for the passage of the Heroes Act in the Senate, which passed the House in May.