Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly (IL-02), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, today introduced the Evaluating Disparities and Outcomes of Telehealth (EDOT) During the COVID-19 Emergency Act of 2021 to develop data-driven policies for telehealth following the COVID-19 public health emergency.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly (IL-02), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, will host a symposium titled "When Black Women Touch Medicine, We Heal the World" on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at 8:30AM at House of Hope in Chicago.
The event will feature several panel-style discussions with distinguished Black women in healthcare and will focus both on Black women's contributions in healthcare and the future of Black women in medicine.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly (IL-02) announced that all 10 of her Community Project Funding requests have been included in the House Appropriations bills. The 10 projects total $6,786,000 in funding, which will come back to support the projects in Illinois' Second Congressional District. The House bills will be debated on the floor and voted on this week.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, and Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04), Congressional Black Caucus First Vice Chair, re-introduced the Medicare Dental Coverage Act to provide dental coverage under Medicare Part B.
Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2021) - Today, co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, Congresswomen Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09), and Robin Kelly (IL-02) sent a letter to the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in response to the high level of scrutiny and penalization that has disproportionately impacted Black women during the 2021 Summer Olympic Games trials.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly's bill, H.R. 4387, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act, passed out of markup in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep. Kelly introduced the bipartisan legislation in July along with Reps. Alma Adams of North Carolina and Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, and Republican colleagues Larry Bucshon of Indiana, Michael Burgess of Texas and Bob Latta of Ohio. This bill will soon advance to the House floor for final passage.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) introduced the Consumer Equity Protection Act of 2021 to establish a federal taskforce to advise the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on issues of equity impacting consumers of protected classes.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Robin Kelly has introduced H.R. 4387, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act (MHQIA), aimed at reducing the alarming rate of maternal deaths in America and saving mothers' lives.
In the United States, there is an estimated 700 pregnancy-related deaths per year and 60 percent of these are considered preventable. The crisis is most severe for Black mothers in America, who are dying at 3 to 4 times the rate of their white counterparts.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly today announced $1,219,234 in grant funding for local Head Start Programs that she helped secure through the American Rescue Plan.