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Siena Masilionis’ “A Dream Realized” – The drawing depicts a triumphant moment for Jack, a junior swimmer at Blue Valley North High School. Jack, who is Masilionis’ best friend, achieved his first-ever state qualifying cut by surpassing his personal best meet time. The artwork captures Jack celebrating his achievement by clasping his parents' hands in joy.
May 13, 2024

This weekend, Representative Sharice Davids hosted a reception honoring the student applicants who participated in her 2024 Congressional Art Competition. This year, Davids’ office received a record-breaking 35 student submissions, doubling the number from previous years.

 

At the event, Davids announced the winners:


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Rep. Davids at New Century
May 10, 2024

Today,Representative Sharice Davids and other Kansans urged bipartisan congressional action on a final Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization that improves customer protections while flying, increases America’s aviation safety standards, and strengthens domestic aviation workforce and manufacturing.


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Rep. Davids during hearing
May 7, 2024

Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $1.3 million to Health Partnership Clinic to help expand access to health care in the Greater Kansas City Area.

Issues:Health Care

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Rep. Sharice Davids at Finley Farms with local, state, and federal agricultural leaders.
May 1, 2024

Last night, Representative Sharice Davids urged the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to consider expanding a water conservation program to include Kansas’ High Plains Aquifer (HPA).

Issues:Agriculture

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Rep. Sharice Davids with local veterans and Kansas City VA staff celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Honoring Our PACT Act at the Lenexa VA Clinic.
April 30, 2024

Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced her office has been selected to host a Green & Gold Congressional Aide for a two-year position based in her Overland Park district office. The opportunity is open to veterans, Gold Star families, and active-duty spouses who meet certain eligibility requirements.


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Rep. Davids during hearing
April 26, 2024

Today, Representative Sharice Davids celebrated Kansas’ newly approved proposal to utilize nearly $452 million to deploy affordable, equitable, and reliable high-speed Internet service throughout the state.


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Rep. Sharice Davids with Terrell Banks. Banks is a five-year veteran with Waste Management and has handled both residential and commercial routes. After receiving her Commercial Driver’s License in 2010, she worked for Kansas City International Airport and FedEx before driving for Waste Management in the Kansas City metro area.
April 25, 2024

SHAWNEE, KS - Today, Representative Sharice Davids worked a "Sharice's Shift" alongside Terrell Banks, a five-year veteran with Waste Management, to collect trash at homes in Shawnee, KS. Davids highlighted her bipartisan legislation to support women truck drivers, which passed as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law.


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Davids supports federal action to prevent internet bill increases.
April 23, 2024

Last week, Davids took multiple actions to lower costs for hardworking families in Kansas and across the country. First, she announced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fulfilled her request to issue a national emergency fuel waiver, allowing the sale of cheaper-produced fuel and saving Kansas money at the gas pump.


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US House Seal
April 20, 2024

Today, Representative Sharice Davids released the following statement after voting for bipartisan legislation that protects America’s allies abroad and sends much-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

 


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Rep. Davids at the gas pump
April 19, 2024

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fulfilled Representative Sharice Davids’ request by issuing a national emergency fuel waiver to allow the sale of E15 – a fuel blended with 10.5 to 15 percent ethanol – during the 2024 summ


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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.

 

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.