Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee passed the Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education (SHINE) for Autumn Act (H.R. 5012) led by U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) released the following statement in response to President Biden's State of the Union Address:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) celebrated the passage of the Action for Dental Health Act and the Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Actin the House of Representatives. These bipartisan bills would reauthorize critical public health programs.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02) voted to advance the first Fiscal Year 2024 government appropriations package and fund nearly $15 million of community projects for IL-02. The legislation is expected to be passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden later this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02) will be joined by Dr. Lisa Green, a physician and Black maternal health expert, as her guest for President Biden's State of the Union Address to Congress on Thursday, March 7.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) issued a letter to U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Director Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to call upon the agency to approve Illinois’s application for a Section 115 Demonstration Waiver. The letter was signed by every Democratic member of Illinois’s House delegation.
Since the horrific Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th, I have thoughtfully engaged with communities who have a stake in the future of the Palestinian and Israeli people. I take my responsibility as a Member of Congress and defender of American interests seriously, and I do not consider our role in this conflict lightly.
Today, I am calling for a renewed, bilateral ceasefire agreement and I urge both Israel and Hamas to explore all possible paths to achieve a just and lasting peace.
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, Congresswomen Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Co-Chairs of the Caucus on Black Women and Girls, and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the bipartisan Protect Black Women and Girls Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, Congresswomen Robin Kelly (D-IL) and Young Kim (R-CA), co-chairs of the bipartisan Maternity Care Caucus, applauded new CMS efforts to improve maternal health and birth outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women and their infants through the new Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model