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U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas is among the Democrats in Washington calling for the removal of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, as a national controversy over the U.S. Postal Service continues to mount.
Davids, a first-term Democrat, also says she supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's move to call the House back to session early to attempt to block the Trump administration's overhauls of the USPS.
Chevrolet dealer Jeff Longbine understood the economic damage to sales from the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential benefit of an emergency federal loan program fashioned to sustain small businesses and prevent employee layoffs.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., encouraged business owners to take advantage of the federal Paycheck Protection Program if they haven't done so. She was the featured speaker Friday, July 17, at a teleconference meeting via ZOOM of the Congressional Forum. The forum is a committee of the Kansas City, Kansas, Chamber of Commerce.
A bipartisan group of House members is beginning to coalesce around a plan to extend aid to airline employees through March 31 of next year.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore., and Subcommittee on Aviation Chairman Rick Larsen, D-Wash., are spearheading circulation of a letter to colleagues that includes a draft letter to House and Senate leadership seeking support to extend the $32 billion Payroll Support Program to keep airline employees on the payroll.
The Small Business Administration recently released new data from the Paycheck Protection Program showing that it has preserved "more than 99,597 jobs in" the Kansas Third Congressional District, according to a press release.
Although the program has helped many Kansans keep their jobs and businesses during a global pandemic, Rep. Sharice Davids is among those who have voiced concerns about some of the loans issued to large, profitable companies.
Amid what the congresswoman calls a devastating pandemic, Rep. Davids has pushed to include in an upcoming health care package more incentives for states that expand Medicaid, and says passing the Justice in Policing Act should be a national priority.
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday called for expanding and enshrining LGBTQ rights, steps they said won't happen unless former Vice President Joe Biden is elected in November.
Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) were among the speakers at The Hill's virtual Pride summit, and both highlighted the need for action in Washington.
Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS), one of the first American Indian women elected to Congress, has helped secure key provisions to improve tribal infrastructure in new legislation proposed by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Kansas and Missouri, two of just 14 states that have not expanded Medicaid, would receive added incentive to make the move under legislation introduced Wednesday by House Democrats.
When Medicaid expansion was rolled out in 2014, the federal government picked up 100 percent of the costs for the first three years to expand coverage for low income Americans. The federal share has gradually decreased to 90 percent.
Kansas Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids interviews Missouri Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a former Kansas City mayor, about racial equity and criminal justice in the wake of protests against police brutality.