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Rep. Sharice Davids eating lunch at Westridge Middle School.
April 17, 2025

OVERLAND PARK, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited the Kansas City Food Hub and Westridge Middle School to hear directly from local producers and school officials about how recent cuts to critical local food programs are hurting Kansas farmers and students.


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Rep. Sharice Davids at the Olathe Air Traffic Control Center
April 16, 2025

OLATHE, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) toured the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Olathe. She emphasized the urgent need to invest in air traffic control staffing and safety infrastructure following a recent air collision involving a passenger aircraft and military helicopter originating from Wichita.

 


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Rep. Sharice Davids at SOR Controls, a KMS client, earlier today.
April 15, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) announced that, following her advocacy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will temporarily restore funding to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program — including Kansas Manufacturing Solutions (KMS), which supports small and mid-sized manufacturers across the state.


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Rep. Sharice Davids at SOR Controls
April 15, 2025

LENEXA, KS — Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited SOR Controls, a Lenexa-based manufacturer and client of Kansas Manufacturing Solutions (KMS), to meet with workers and discuss the need to protect good-paying jobs and support local manufacturers.


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Rep. Sharice Davids works a “Sharice’s Shift” at Indra Air Traffic, Inc.
April 11, 2025

In case you missed it, the Kansas City Star reported on Representative Sharice Davids’ new legislation to reverse devastating cuts made by the Trump administration to Kansas Manufacturing Solutions (KMS), a nonprofit that supports hundreds of Kansas manufacturers, including more than 500 in Kansas’ Third District alone.

 


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Rep. Davids learning more about the Registered Apprenticeship Program
April 10, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) introduced the Defend American Manufacturing Act, legislation to protect a key program that supports local manufacturing companies across the country.


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Stocks
April 9, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids released the following statement in response to President Trump’s latest round of tariffs, which went into effect early this morning. Experts warn the tariffs could raise costs for American families by $4,000 to $8,000 per year and further damage an already fragile economy.

 


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Rep. Sharice Davids with Planned Parenthood leaders and volunteers after today’s press conference.
April 9, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) joined Representative Judy Chu (CA-28) and Dina Titus (NV-01) and Senators Tina Smith (MN), Patty Murray (WA), and Elizabeth Warren (MA) in introducing the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act, legislation that would safeguard and increase funding for Title X — the nation’s only federal program dedicated to providing comprehensive family planning and preventive health services.


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Rep. Davids at the Farm Bill markup
April 7, 2025

Recently, Representative Sharice Davids urged U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer to amend a new shipping policy that would hurt Kansas businesses, farmers, and U.S. national security.


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Rep. Davids at Haskell University
April 4, 2025

This week, Representative Sharice Davids urged the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to listen to widespread Tribal opposition to their proposed school voucher program and fully fund Tribal education and BIE programs. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) and Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) also led the effort. 

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May 29, 2026

.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.


May 27, 2026

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.

 


May 23, 2026

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.

 


May 22, 2026

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.

 


May 22, 2026

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.

 

Issues: Health Care

May 22, 2026

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.

 


May 22, 2026

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.

 


May 10, 2026

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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May 4, 2026

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.

 

Issues: Health Care

April 28, 2026

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.