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SPRING HILL, KS — Today, Representative Sharice Davids, a member of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, visited the Ottawa Cooperative Association (Co-Op) to hear directly from local producers and discuss her efforts to strengthen the regional agricultural supply chain and lower grocery prices for Kansas families. The visit came ahead of next week’s long-awaited Farm Bill markup, which has been delayed for several years.
OVERLAND PARK, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids hosted a roundtable discussion with Johnson County small business owners and economic development leaders to talk about the successes and challenges facing local businesses and to highlight new data on the region’s growing small business ecosystem. She has hosted similar discussions in each of the other counties across Kansas’ Third District to ensure local perspectives are shaping her work in Congress.
LENEXA, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids delivered Valentine’s Day cards at the Lenexa VA as part of her eighth annual “Valentine’s for Veterans” program. After calling for community submissions, Davids’ team received more than 650 cards from all corners of Kansas’ Third District.
Overland Park, KS — Today, Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) joined local partners to celebrate the completion and grand opening of the express lanes on U.S. 69 between 103rd and 151st Streets. This three-year design-build project was a successful collaboration between Davids’ office, Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), Kansas Turnpike Authority, and City of Overland Park.
Today, following her calls, Representative Sharice Davids welcomed news that a company seeking to use land in south Kansas City for a proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility will no longer move forward with the sale, follo
Last night, members from both parties in the U.S. House voted to end President Trump’s reckless tariffs on Canada. For a year, Representative Sharice Davids has fought back against these extreme tariff policies that are raising costs for hardworking Kansans, eliminating markets for farmers, and forcing local small businesses to shut their doors. Davids released the following statement:
Today, Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) expressed strong opposition to plans to open and operate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities in the Kansas City metropolitan area, including proposed sites in Leavenworth, Kansas and south Kansas City, Missouri — the latter originally intended for economic development.
Washington, D.C. — Last week, Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) and Buddy Carter (R-GA-01), co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Sustainable Aviation Caucus, hosted a Member briefing on the business case for sustainable aviation and the role of emerging technologies in strengthening the U.S. aviation sector.
Washington, D.C. – This week, Congressional Native American Caucus Co-Chairs, Representative Tom Cole (R-OK-04) and Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03), reintroduced H.R.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) reintroduced her bipartisan Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act, legislation to strengthen the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Native American Affairs (ONAA) and expand support for Native entrepreneurs.
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.Missouri’s Sam Graves and Kansas’ Sharice Davids and Tracey Mann back a new law to use data to stop accidents before they happen.Getty Images
For decades, Congress has treated roadway safety the way too many drivers treat a warning light on the dashboard: Ignore it until something breaks. Federal transportation policy has largely followed suit, funding response over prevention and leaving agencies to document tragedies rather than avert them.
Representative Sharice Davids announced she secured a $2.6 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to support construction of a new air traffic control tower at New Century AirCenter.
U.S. Congresswoman Sharice Davids (D-KS) says the National Weather Service has failed to respond to her demands for answers about missed weather balloon launches.
She adds that seven more tornadoes touched down across the state this week, and critical atmospheric data collection disruptions continue.
Across Ottawa, Kansas, pieces of the April 13 tornado remain. Buildings like the Knights Inn on Main Street are still in shambles, and those who lived through it are still recovering.
A month later, federal officials are questioning whether there should have been more warning for the Ottawa tornado and the others that have ripped through Kansas during this storm season.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids introduced a bipartisan bill designed to help rural hospitals remain open and improve health care services. The Rural Hospital Revitalization Act would offer interest-free loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Community Facilities Program. Hospitals could use the loans, available for up to 10 years, to build new facilities or update older buildings.
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids expressed frustration Friday with the National Weather Service’s failure in the last month to launch three-fourths of the balloons typically sent aloft in Kansas to assess atmospheric conditions and assist with weather forecasting.
TOPEKA — A coalition of federal lawmakers from Kansas introduced in the U.S. House this week a bipartisan bill that could offer interest-free loans to rural hospitals “hanging on by a thread.”
U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids and Tracey Mann of Kansas and representatives from Alabama, Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, Oregon and West Virginia co-sponsored the Rural Hospital Revitalization Act.
U.S. Congresswoman Sharice Davids (D-KS) joined officials to mark a $50 million aviation manufacturing expansion in Olathe.
Davids says the visit was part of her “Sharice’s Shift” series. Indra Group USA unveiled a new 118,000-square-foot facility at the Great Plains Commerce Center.
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U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas urged the public to contact lawmakers to express opposition to a federal appeals court’s order undercutting a U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation broadening access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), a tribal citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and one of the first Native women elected to Congress, is introducing new legislation titled the Truth in National Parks Act to ensure National Park Service (NPS) sites preserve historically and culturally accurate information while setting clear limits on the removal or alteration of materials that reflect that history.