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U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., is continuing her Valentines for Vets program this week in the 3rd District.
Her office is collecting and distributing Valentine's Day cards to veterans and caregivers in the 3rd District, for the fourth annual event.
Residents may mail Valentine's cards to Rep. Davids' office in Kansas City or may email a card message to KS03valentinesforvets@gmail.com through Saturday, Feb. 12.
Rep. Davids then will deliver the submitted cards to Kansas veterans and caregivers.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., recently voted to pass major economic legislation aimed at addressing current supply chain issues and promoting long-term American competitiveness.
Rep. Sharice Davids' measure to help small manufacturers get federal money to ease shortages of protective medical gear passed the House of Representatives Friday, nearly two years after it was originally proposed.
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, a Democrat serving the Third District in eastern Kansas, said the state had thousands of wells polluting public spaces, recreational areas or private property.
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.
Now, Davids, along with New York Rep. Claudia Tenney, have reintroduced the legislation earlier this month with the hopes of ensuring women business owners have the tools they need to succeed.
Buttigieg visited Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday to discuss how the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill will modernize infrastructure across the U.S.
With the Rock Island Bridge as a backdrop, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday touted the Biden administration's $1 trillion infrastructure bill to fund improvements such as roads, bridges and public transportation in places like Kansas City, Kansas.
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.
Missouri and Kansas will receive $96.9 million and $45 million respectively over the next year under the new law to help fix thousands of bridges in need of repair — including some likely comparable to Pittsburgh's 50-year-old Forbes Avenue Bridge.
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.
The women in the Kansas City roundtable included:
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.
Now, four years later and cancer-free, she estimates her out-of-pocket expenses total $50,000 — and she's accumulated about $2 million in medical bills.