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WASHINGTON— Yesterday, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) held a virtual discussion on safeguarding maternal health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Underwood and Warren recently introduced the bicameral Maternal Health Pandemic Response Act to address the impacts of the pandemic on the United States' maternal health crisis. The legislation would improve data collection and research and make critical investments to mitigate pregnancy-related risks during the public health emergency.
WEST CHICAGO— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced that the City of Joliet will receive a $20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for the I-55 at IL 59 Access Projectin Joliet. This grant, which is funded by DOT's Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation grants program, follows successful efforts by Underwood to increase funding for the BUILD grants program.
WASHINGTON— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood's (IL-14) legislation to address the veteran suicide crisis advanced in the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. The Lethal Means Safety Training Act (H.R.
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.
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.
WEST CHICAGO— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) celebrated the Department of Energy's recent announcement selecting Fermilab to lead one of the Department's five new National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. The Department's announcement is a part of the U.S.
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. The letter also highlighted the link between dangerous methane emissions and the impact on maternal health risks, particularly for Black women.
WEST CHICAGO— Today, Rep. Lauren Underwood (IL-14) released the following statement.
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.