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Today, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., released a new report examining the status and safety of bridges in the 3rd District of Kansas, the first installment in her office's "State of our Systems" series.

The series will detail the most pressing infrastructure needs in the district and how Rep. Davids is working to bring federal funds to those projects, starting with bridges. Key findings include:

• 6 of the top 10 most-travelled structurally deficient bridges in Kansas are in the 3rd District.

Johnson County Mental Health Center has received more than $900,000 in federal grant funding to support the organization's efforts to serve incarcerated people as they prepare to reenter society.

In total, the community health center received $927,512 for the Reentry Project, which is intended to offer quality mental health care for inmates leaving detention.

Rep. Sharice Davids stood at the edge of a closed bridge in Kansas City, Kansas Thursday to announce the first of several reports planned to detail unmet infrastructure needs in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District.

It's part of a broader campaign by Davids and other Democrats to promote the bipartisan infrastructure deal currently stalled in the House.

Davids focused Thursday on bridges in need of repair — like the Central Avenue Bridge in KCK that has been closed since February because it was in danger of failing.

Elected officials in Fairway aren't the only ones working on uncovering truths about the Shawnee Indian Mission.

Rep. Sharice Davids on Thursday reintroduced The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act, according to a press release. The bill creates a commission to investigate schools connected to assimilation policies in the federal government's Indian Boarding School Policies like Shawnee Indian Mission.

Indian Boarding School Policies were created and enforced to strip Indigenous peopels

What has been called the "most significant wildlife conservation bill" in almost half a century has the support of Kansas's two U.S. Senators and only Congresswoman.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly says she applauds Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) as well as Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-03) for their bipartisan support of the most significant wildlife conservation bill seen in nearly 50 years.

A bipartisan elections bill is the rarest of creatures, one many Americans have never seen in the wild.

Congressional Democrats are united behind sweeping voting rights legislation that won't pass the Senate so long as the filibuster exists, because Republicans are united against it. Republican legislators in Texas, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere have passed numerous voting restrictions over united Democratic opposition.

But on one sliver of voting issues, it seems lawmakers might — might! — be able to agree.

For nearly a decade, politicians in Kansas have sought to expand access to Medicaid only to be blocked by conservative Republicans.

Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed a bi-partisan effort in 2017, citing the lack of work requirements for beneficiaries and a failure to defund Planned Parenthood. Senate President Susan Wagle scuttled another bi-partisan agreement in 2020, making passage contingent on approval of an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.

Now, Democrats in Washington, D.C. are on the verge of stepping in.

…"The historic bipartisan infrastructure deal will make life better for millions of Kansas residents beyond just bringing long-overdue repairs to our infrastructure. Aging cast iron and ductile iron water mains are leaking at an alarming rate. Water mains are deteriorating away from corrosion caused by the environment they are buried in. With 21% of our customers living below poverty, it is already difficult to control the costs for our customer base in a community like Wyandotte County. I urge the U.S. House to pass this legislation, and I thank Rep.