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There is new evidence about rising drug costs in the Kansas City metro area.

A Congressional report found that Medicare clients in Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas paid $16 million for their insulin in 2016.

And it's probably more than that now.

Jessica Brown's 11-year-old son has been on insulin for most of his life.

"It has gone steadily up," Brown said. "It wasn't one year to the next that it was so much higher that it was alarm bells. But every year I think, 'This is not how much it was last year.' Let me go back and look."

A weekend of violence in Kansas City and mass shootings across the country left Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II with heartache he's felt many times before, he said at an event in Midtown Wednesday night.

"And painfully, I know that it's going to happen again," Cleaver said, "and it will continue until there is a revolution in the way we do politics in our country."

Following shootings in El Paso and Dayton this weekend that killed 29 and left dozens more injured, first-term Rep. Sharice Davids issued a call for the U.S. Senate to reconvene to take up gun safety legislation.

It was hot, the room was crowded with cameras and a long line of people waited with requests for Rep. Sharice Davids, the Kansas Democrat, who was busy working, head down.

It may sound like Washington, but no.

On Tuesday, Davids was plating food in the kitchen of Jones Bar-B-Q, the now-famous Kansas City, Kansas, hole-in-the-wall made-over by the "Queer Eye" guys. At one point, Davids called out that she needed more baked beans.

Rep. Davids advocates for Kansas City-area infrastructure needs, brings House Transportation and Infrastructure Leadership to Kansas Third District. Rep. Sharice Davids advocated for Kansas City-area infrastructure needs during a Third District visit from Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chair Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) and Aviation Subcommittee Chair Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) last weekend. Davids is also a member of the Committee and Vice Chair of the Aviation Subcommittee.

When Sharice Davids defeated the four-term incumbent representative of Kansas' 3rd District in 2018, she made history twice in one night.

"I feel like it's still a surreal thing to think about," Davids said. "What it was like to find out that I won and have us literally jumping up and down and screaming."

She became the first Native American woman — a distinction she shares with Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico — to be elected to Congress and the first openly LGBT person to represent the state of Kansas.

GARDNER, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas' 3rd Congressional District Representative wants to help the state's military veterans get jobs, education and healthcare.

The daughter of a veteran herself, Rep. Sharice Davids announced her team will host a Veterans Appreciation Day this Saturday alongside Veterans Affairs representatives in Gardner. The group will offer assistance and connections for job training, education opportunities and healthcare resources at the American Legion LeRoy Hill Post 19.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to move hundreds of federal research jobs out of the Washington area— possibly to Kansas City— has triggered a backlash from scientists and other agriculture stakeholders.

Critics of the proposed relocation of the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture say moving the agencies to the heartland will hamper collaboration with other science agencies in Washington, hinder communication with Congress and risk the perception of regional bias.