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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.
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. The grant will help the college provide telehealth services and virtual dual credit classes to IVCC students and students at 10 partner schools in surrounding areas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Representative Alma Adams (NC-12), Representative Steven Horsford (NV-04), and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) urged the Biden-Harris Administration to include policy priorities of the Black Maternal Health Caucus and fully fund the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act in the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025.
I unequivocally condemn Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attacks on Israel. I strongly support Israel’s right to protect its people and hold Hamas accountable, and I call for the immediate safe return of all hostages captured by Hamas. Almost two months after the October 7 attacks, we have finally seen significant progress on the return of some hostages and on delivering humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza, thanks to the temporary ceasefire brokered by the Biden-Harris Administration along with Egypt and Qatar.
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.
JOLIET — Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced that the Will County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (WCSAPC) will receive a total of $625,000 over the next five years from the Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program to help prevent and reduce youth substance abuse in Will County.
JOLIET – Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) held a Fire Chief Summit in Oglesby with emergency responders across Illinois’ 14th District for a conversation about their needs and to share information on tools and key federal programs to support their departments.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) announced that the Ottawa Fire Department will receive $713,849 through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Program.