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About $58.6 million will help clean up around 5,400 abandoned oil wells in Kansas.
On Thursday, Feb. 3, Representative Sharice Davids said $58.6 million is headed to the Sunflower State to help clean up over 5,400 hazardous, abandoned oil and gas wells that pollute backyards, recreation areas and public spaces across Kansas.
The bipartisan federal infrastructure law appropriated $58.6 million to cap more than 5,400 oil and gas wells in Kansas that have been abandoned by owners and threaten water supplies or pose other environmental hazards.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas met with Kansas City businesswomen Thursday morning to discuss the challenges facing female entrepreneurs and how legislation she filed could help.
Two years ago, Congress passed the Women's Business Centers Improvement Act with unanimous bipartisan support.
Buttigieg visited Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday to discuss how the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill will modernize infrastructure across the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg promoted the funding for bridge safety included in the new federal infrastructure law during a visit to Kansas City, Kan., on Friday, just hours after a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh.
Businesswomen in Kansas City met with Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids on Thursday morning to discuss legislation she filed that would improve resources and opportunities for women entrepreneurs.
The Women's Business Centers Improvement Act, which passed with unanimous bipartisan support in Congress two years ago, with reintroduced by Davids and New York Rep. Claudia Tenney.
Heather Rubesch, a Prairie Village resident, went into her battle with breast cancer in September 2017 thinking finances would be the least of her worries.
But when paying for her care drained her and her husband's $8,000 emergency fund early in year two, she became worried.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., and Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., have jointly introduced the Women's Business Centers Improvement Act.
The legislation would increase access to resources and opportunities for female entrepreneurs in Kansas and across the country, according to Rep. Davids.
On Jan. 1, amid celebrations, fireworks and last-minute resolutions, American health care policy took a major step forward for patients. You may have missed it — but for millions of Americans who have been asking for relief on health care costs and me, it was the culmination of years of work to make our system more affordable, fair and accessible.
On Thursday, U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ), Tom Cole (R-OK), and Sharice Davids (D-KS) introduced bipartisan legislation to establish a Congressional Charter for the National American Indian Veterans (NAIV).