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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representative Sharice Davids released the following statement after voting against a partisan budget bill that uses taxpayer dollars for controversial immigration enforcement instead of lowering costs for hardworking families.
“Kansans are struggling to afford gas, groceries, and rent. Instead of focusing on lowering those costs, Republicans in Congress are once again putting their party’s leaders over hardworking families.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representative Sharice Davids marked the start of the FIFA World Cup with remarks on the U.S. House floor, celebrating Kansas City's role as one of the tournament's host cities. Beginning this week, Kansas City will host six matches and serve as the home base for four national teams during the FIFA World Cup. Davids is the founder and co-chair of the Congressional FIFA World Cup 2026 Caucus.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, during a U.S. House Agriculture Committee hearing, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) questioned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins on the recent detection of New World Screwworm in the United States, as well as rising costs and staffing cuts affecting the Department’s ability to respond to agricultural threats.
Yesterday, U.S. Representative Sharice Davids joined KCUR's Up To Date to discuss the issues she’s hearing most from Kansans: the rising cost of living and the need to focus on practical solutions rather than chaotic policies.
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Mark Pocan (D-WI), and Senator Markey (D-MA) introduced legislation to offer LGBTQI+ specific services for older LGBTQI+ Americans and individuals living with HIV in rural communities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS-03), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), and 37 others questioned Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about staffing shortages at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that are slowing the distribution of congressionally approved research funding.
Today, following reports that the Johnson County Election Office is eliminating eight early voting sites ahead of the August primary, Davids released the following statement.
OVERLAND PARK, KS – Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids announced that 17 students from Kansas’ Third District have successfully received their appointments to U.S. Service Academies following her nomination. At her annual send-off event in Overland Park, Davids presented each student with a certificate acknowledging their incredible achievement.
Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids published an opinion piece in the Washington Examiner highlighting the importance of long-term infrastructure investment to strengthen America’s competitiveness against China, support economic growth, and keep Kansas moving forward.
OVERLAND PARK, KS — Today, Representative Sharice Davids hosted a listening session with Kansans from across the Third District focused on the rising cost of living and the financial pressures families continue to face from higher prices on groceries, healthcare, housing, fuel, and utilities. Davids emphasized the need for practical, bipartisan solutions that lower costs for hardworking families instead of policies that reward billionaires and large corporations at everyone else’s expense.
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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.