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Today, Representative Sharice Davids celebrated the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new investments in Kansas that will strengthen food supply chains, increase independent meat and poultry processing capacity, and lower food costs. Through two grant programs, created by the Davids-supported American Rescue Plan, meat and poultry processers across Kansas will receive more than $10.5 million. These actions will help lower food costs by spurring competition and strengthening supply chains.
OLATHE, KS - Today, Representative Sharice Davids held a townhall at Ridgeview Village Senior Living in Olathe to celebrate new reduction in prescription drug costs for Kansans on Medicare. As a result, 74,000 Kansans who take these prescription drugs will see their costs decrease by up to 79 percent. Davids was the only member of Kansas’ congressional delegation to support these new cost-saving measures, that will lower Americans' out-of-pocket drug costs by $1.5 billion in the first year alone.
Representative Sharice Davids released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced newly reduced prices for the first 10 prescription drugs, listed here, negotiated by Medicare. 74,000 Kansans will save up to 79 percent on their prescriptions.
MISSION, KS - Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids hosted a conversation with local high school students, focusing on mental health challenges and solutions for the nearly one in five teenagers affected each year. As the school year begins, Davids is dedicated to supporting Kansas youth by advocating for stronger mental health resources and policies that address their needs, ensuring every student has the support they deserve to thrive inside and outside the classroom.
OTTAWA, KS — Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited AdventHealth Ottawa Health Park to tour their newly expanded health park, which now offers enhanced services, including behavioral health and express care. During her visit, Rep.
Today, after a week touring Kansas’ Third District to witness the impact of her project requests, Representative Sharice Davids joined local leaders to celebrate the success of these initiatives. The 15 projects, totaling $15.8 million in fiscal year 2024, will help purchase new law enforcement training vehicles, modernize roads and bridges, improve water access during extreme weather, and more.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited a portion of Highway US-69 in Johnson County to celebrate her successful funding request to relocate or modify sanitary sewers along the busy roadway.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited the Kansas Avenue Bridge replacement project to celebrate her and Representative Jake LaTurner’s (R-KS-02) successful funding request to help replace a bridge that connects Kansas to Missouri and supports 8,000 trips daily.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids urged the Senate to pass a bipartisan tax package aimed at reducing taxes for hardworking families and small businesses in Kansas.
Today, U.S. Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS) and Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded the Kansas City Inclusive Biologics and Biomanufacturing Tech Hub (KC BioHub) with $500,000 as part of the Regional Technology and Innovation Hub (Tech Hub) program.
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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.