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DE SOTO, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids welcomed U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to De Soto to view the planned Panasonic Energy manufacturing plant site and discuss the impact of transformational legislation like the bipartisan infrastructure law and CHIPS and Science Act in the state.
In January, a new policy capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month started to take effect for folks on Medicare—including Kansans like Julie Cogley, an Overland Park retiree who previously paid as much as $700 a month for her insulin.
BUCYRUS, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids continued her Farm Bill listening tour in Miami County, visiting two farms and meeting with local producers and agriculture community leaders. Her tour will continue at farms, ranches, and businesses across the Third District as Davids prepares to consider the 2023 Farm Bill through her position on the House Agriculture Committee. This package of legislation is typically renewed every five years and determines federal agriculture and nutrition policy impacting Kansas families both urban and rural.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids joined Governor Laura Kelly, Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt, Acting Secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Calvin Reed, and other local leaders to break ground on the US 69 modernization project. US 69 is the most congested and most dangerous four-lane road in the state, and the new project—funded in part by the bipartisan infrastructure law—will add two new lanes from 103rd to 151st Streets and complete a new interchange at 167th Street.
OTTAWA, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids continued her Farm Bill listening tour in Franklin County, visiting the Ottawa Cooperative Association (Co-op) and meeting with local producers and agriculture community leaders. The tour will continue at farms, ranches, and businesses across the Third District as Davids prepares to consider the 2023 Farm Bill through her position on the House Agriculture Committee.
GARNETT, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids kicked off her Farm Bill listening tour in Anderson County, visiting Bauman's Cedar Valley Farm and meeting with local producers and agriculture community leaders. The tour will continue at farms, ranches, and businesses across the Third District as Davids prepares to consider the 2023 Farm Bill through her position on the House Agriculture Committee. This package of legislation is typically renewed every five years and determines federal agriculture and nutrition policy impacting Kansas families both urban and rural.
LENEXA, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids delivered Valentine's Day cards at the Lenexa VA as part of her 5th annual "Valentines for Veterans" program. After calling for community submissions, Davids' office received hundreds of cards from all corners of Kansas' Third District, including Washington High School JROTC, Louisburg USD 416, and Paola USD 368.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced $1.28 million is coming to Kansas' Third District to improve roads and address traffic fatalities in Olathe and Wyandotte County. The Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program was established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Davids voted to support, to redesign roads and streets to prevent deaths and serious injuries.
Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids introduced a bipartisan resolution designating the week of February 5, 2023 as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week." The resolution recognizes the importance of these institutions to the economic, educational, and social well-being of Indian Country. Davids serves as the Co-Chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus and was one of the first two Native women elected to Congress.
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement after President Biden delivered his State of the Union address:
"Tonight, I was looking for President Biden to share his plan for the challenges ahead, domestic and international, and to acknowledge the need for continued oversight and implementation on the bipartisan accomplishments of the last two years—particularly the infrastructure law and new domestic manufacturing investments.
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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.