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Today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) and U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.), along with U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (Mo.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), and Pat Roberts (Kan.), and U.S. Representatives Sharice Davids (Kan.) and Sam Graves (Mo.), called for an immediate bipartisan briefing from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on the reduction of a contract, which has led to the furloughs of roughly 800 contract employees in the agency's Kansas City offices.
The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 257 to 150 to pass a $25 billion bill that would stop cuts to the U.S. Postal Service.
The bill prohibits the Postal Service from implementing any changes to the operations or service levels in effect on Jan. 1, 2020; requires the Postal Service to treat all election mail as first-class mail; and provides $25 billion in emergency funding to the Postal Service. The bill next goes to the Senate for approval.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids Thursday afternoon continued her discussion on the importance of the United States Postal Service. Earlier this week, Davids called for the the removal of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who she said has implemented policies predicted to delay USPS operations during the upcoming general election.
Kansas City area election officials and members of the Congressional delegation said Tuesday they are fielding lots of worried calls about the safety of mail-in voting, and they are trying to pro-actively address them prior to the November elections.
They voiced their concerns on the same day that U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy issued a lengthy statement to reassure the public that proposed U.S. Postal Service changes will not adversely affect the elections.
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.