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Yesterday, during a meeting with the Kansas Farm Bureau's Leadership Class, Representative Sharice Davids was presented with the "Friend of Farm Bureau" award from the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF). The award is given to Members of Congress who have supported farmers, ranchers, and agricultural communities in the 117th Congress. Davids was nominated by the Kansas Farm Bureau and approved by the AFBF Board of Directors.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced her office has officially helped recover over $11 million owed to local taxpayers in the Kansas Third District. This milestone highlights the success of Davids' robust constituent service efforts, a priority she's maintained since taking office. Of the $11 million, Davids' office recovered over $7 million in missing IRS tax returns.
Earlier this week, The Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) announced that Representative Sharice Davidshas won a Democracy Award, a distinctive honor recognizing achievement in operations and constituent service by Members of Congress.
KANSAS CITY, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids hosted a roundtable discussion with Kansas City business leaders to discuss how to continue attracting federal investments from the bipartisan infrastructure law and recently-passed manufacturing legislation to the Kansas Third.
OLATHE, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids held a roundtable discussion on new provisions to lower the cost of prescription drugs in Kansas. Davids also joined Glenda DuBoise, State Director of AARP Kansas for a virtual town hall to speak directly to Kansas seniors about these new cost-saving measures.
OVERLAND PARK, KS -- Today, Representative Sharice Davids toured The Culinary Center of Kansas City, a local woman-owned business and client of the Kansas City Women's Business Center (WBC). Davids' visit follows House passage of her bipartisan bill, the Women's Business Centers Improvement Act, which would increase access to resources and opportunities for female entrepreneurs in Kansas and across the country. In 2021, the Kansas City WBC assisted 513 local small business owners with counseling, training, and resources.
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the result of Alaska's At-Large Congressional District special election:
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has been awarded an initial grant of $25 million to help plug 67 abandoned oil wells in Johnson County and 176 in Miami County. This historic investment is part of the $58.6 million in bipartisan infrastructure law funding that will create good-paying, union jobs, introduce new economic opportunity, and reduce dangerous methane leaks at the 5,400 abandoned wells in Kansas.
Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids released a report on the new health insurance savings Kansans can soon utilize thanks to the new health care law that passed earlier this month. Davids held a press conference to share what Kansans must know to take advantage of the new provisions.
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Kansas families could soon have more information about savings and investment options for their children under bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Reps. Derek Schmidt, and Sharice Davids.
The Born to Invest Act would create a nationwide framework based on a program recently established in Kansas. The goal is to help parents and guardians learn about tax-advantaged accounts that can be used to save for children’s futures.
Representatives Sharice Davids and Gabe Evans announced the introduction of bipartisan legislation aimed at making it easier for families to apply for Social Security survivor benefits. The Survivor Benefits Application Modernization Act would require the Social Security Administration to create an online system for scheduling appointments and applying for survivor benefits.
Rep. Sharice Davids announced an $8.3 million federal award for the Kansas State Department of Education through the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program.
The funding includes about $2.9 million in base funding and $5.5 million in additional funding for fiscal year 2026.
After Congress passed the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act" this week, President Donald Trump said he wouldn't sign it into law unless lawmakers also passed an unrelated bill focused on voting restrictions. Johnson County Rep. Sharice Davids joined KCUR's Up To Date to share her reactions and to discuss what could come next.
In a rare bipartisan feat, Republicans and Democrats in Congress overwhelmingly passed the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act" earlier this week.
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed bipartisan legislation that would permanently establish the Small Business Administration's Office of Native American Affairs, a move supporters say would strengthen federal support for Native entrepreneurs and tribal economic development.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids held a roundtable in Shawnee with local officials and stakeholders about bison herd restoration as part of her America 250 week here in town.
She said the discussion helped her appreciate the importance of both preserving the American bison and increasing the large mammal’s population.
Last spring, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency employed slash-and-burn tactics to bring federal agencies to heel, local farm service centers in Kansas were hit especially hard.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture lost some 24,000 employees from September 2024 to December 2025, federal data shows. In Kansas, more than 500 workers were terminated or took buyouts — a 32% scale-back that constituted the region’s largest USDA staffing reduction.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids says she’s hearing from Kansas residents who are struggling to make ends meet. In an interview with KCUR's Up To Date, Davids said President Trump went to war in Iran "without a clear strategy," and it's adding to the high cost of living.
Keeping Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a top priority for Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids. But the congresswoman from Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District disagrees with how the Trump administration is trying to eliminate that threat.
A Kansas healthcare leader and a U.S. Representative are questioning why funding needed to continue essential scientific research isn’t being paid out.
“More than halfway through fiscal 2026, the National Institutes of Health has allocated only 33% of the $26 billion it normally awards to universities,” wrote University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod with Ron Daniels, Johns Hopkins University president, in a Wall Street Journal column in May.
There are 13 Johnson County students headed to U.S. service academies this summer.
On Friday, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids celebrated the 13 students and their families with a send-off event on Friday at Corporate Woods Founders Park.
For Vance Provost, a 2025 Olathe North alumnus, his appointment to West Point and the May 29 send-off is the culmination of three years of work.