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U.S. Representatives Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., and Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., hosted a forum in Yorkville, Ill. This week to discuss challenges young Americans face with mental health.
Underwood and Kennedy are members of Future Forum, an influential group of young members of Congress who advocate for issues and opportunities important to younger Americans.

U.S. Reps. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, and Joseph Kennedy III, D-Massachusetts, held a public forum Wednesday in Yorkville focusing on mental health issues facing young people.
An overflow conference room of young people, mental health professionals and members of the community registered to attend the meeting at the Kendall County Health Department.
"Think of this as a beginning of a conversation where people can talk openly," Underwood said.
No one should have to suffer in silence or in isolation, she told the group.

Members of Congress fought to the (virtual) death Wednesday night while their staffers, drinking beer and scarfing down cheeseburger sliders, watched. Don't worry: It was live-streamed.
The setting was a dimly lit reception room on Capitol Hill. The occasion was a video game tournament, put on by the Entertainment Software Association, that ran on the streaming site Twitch. As some huddled intently around screens to play their own side games, a battle for Florida or New York supremacy was unfolding — a Rocket League showdown between Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Hakeem Jeffries.