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Child at doctor
March 28, 2025

Today, in a Kansas City Star essay, a health care policy expert and Prairie Village mother shines a light on the dangerous cuts to Medicaid, known as KanCare in Kansas, being pushed by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress — and the work Representative Sharice Davids is doing to stop them.

 


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Rep. Davids at a local gas station announcing her support to suspend the federal gas tax
March 26, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to lower gas prices, requesting an emergency waiver to allow the sale of E15 – fuel blended


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The United States House of Representatives' official seal.
March 24, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced her support for bipartisan legislation to stop improper Medicaid payments for deceased individuals that had gone unnoticed.


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mailbox
March 21, 2025

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.) and U.S. Representative Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) today called on United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to continue to prioritize joint efforts between the City of Olathe and the USPS to relocate the downtown postal facility and construct a new, efficient and modern facility. 


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Representative Sharice Davids sees Gayle Bergman’s new energy efficient insulation, which qualified for new tax credits.
March 21, 2025

Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) is fighting to protect tax credits that are saving Kansans money on energy bills, helping farmers, and creating thousands of good-paying jobs across the state.


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US House Seal
March 20, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) released the following statement after President Trump announced his plan to close the U.S. Department of Education. Davids is a graduate of Leavenworth High School and Johnson County Community College. 

 

Issues:Education

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Rep. Sharice Davids speaks with local seniors who depend on Social Security to discuss recent threats to the program.
March 20, 2025

OVERLAND PARK – Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) met with local seniors who rely on Social Security to discuss the serious threats President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have recently made against the program.


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Representative Sharice Davids eating lunch at The Wooden Spoon.
March 18, 2025

OVERLAND PARK – Today, Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) met with the owner of The Wooden Spoon, a local breakfast restaurant, to hear firsthand how rising egg prices are impacting small businesses and consumers in Kansas. Following their conversation, Davids announced new legislative efforts to address the cost of eggs.

 


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US House Seal
March 14, 2025

Today, Representative Sharice Davids released the following statement as Congress passed the partisan funding bill negotiated by Congressional Republicans and President Trump. Davids previously urged House leadership to work across the aisle to avoid critical cuts to programs relied on by thousands of Kansans.

 


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Rep. Sharice Davids with Steve Bowlin
March 11, 2025

Ahead of a potential government shutdown on Friday, Representative Sharice Davids released a statement today following her vote against the partisan funding bill negotiated by Congressional Republicans and President Trump.

 


In the News

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.

 

What’s Being Built - and Why It Matters


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.