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The New Roots for Refugees program was awarded over $500,000 in grant funding Friday.
The program helps refugee families learn to grow produce and maintain small businesses.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is providing the funding, which will support farm training and market support.
While Cleaver advocated for affordable housing, Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids promoted increased access to healthcare. One of the provisions she pushed for — allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, was dropped for lack of support in the Senate.
Kansas received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture aimed at destigmatizing mental health and supporting the agriculture community on Friday.
The Kansas congressional delegation renewed the bipartisan campaign to convince Congress to imposed at the federal level a law requiring wireless communication companies to promptly share cellular telephone data with law enforcement officers searching for people at risk of physical harm.
With the contours of the Democrats' social-spending bill coming into focus, health advocates are hoping investments in maternal-mortality research will get across the finish line.
Vulnerable House Democrats are urging leadership not to drop or water down a provision to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices as talks on the issue enter the final stretch.
Today, during National Head Start Awareness Month, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., announced the Department of Health and Human Services awarded a renewal of $3,481,376 to the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute's Early Head Start projects, known as Project Eagle.
A group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Colin Allred of Texas, sent a letter to their Senate colleagues on Monday morning urging them to pass voting rights legislation known as the "Freedom to Vote Act" when it comes up for a vote this week.
Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) said recent diversity gains in Congress could help create policies that better support minority communities.
"I think the more we can support folks who are stepping out and stepping up, the better off we'll all be," Davids said at The Hill's Diversity and Inclusion Summit.
Much needed relief from flooding in several neighborhoods on both sides of the state line is underway thanks to a $529-million investment from the federal government.
It's part of a levee improvement project along both the Kansas and Missouri Rivers that will help six key neighborhoods, including industrial ones that employ more than 100,000 people.