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Today, Representative Sharice Davids launched her Made in Kansas tour to promote domestic manufacturing and supply chain solutions at A&K Railroad Materials. Davids announced the tour after being selected as a key negotiator for the House as lawmakers finalize a major, bipartisan supply chain package in Congress.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded $2,163,187 in renewed funding to Kansas Manufacturing Solutions (KMS) to provide services and support to local manufacturers. Based in Lenexa, KMS is the only federally supported Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program Center in Kansas.
Following a hearing examining policies to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, Representative Sharice Davids joined a bipartisan group of 19 House colleagues to call for continued action to prevent insider trading and improve transparency. The House Administration Committee heard strong testimony in support of a stock trading ban for members of Congress and their immediate families last week.
KANSAS CITY, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited The University of Kansas (KU) Cancer Center to celebrate passage of her funding request for a new imaging machine to advance cutting-edge cancer research and treatment in Kansas. Davids joined KU Medical Center Executive Vice Chancellor Dr. Robert Simari, KU Cancer Center President Dr. Roy Jensen, and Acting Department Chair of Cancer Biology Dr. Stefan Bossmann to tour an active research lab and hear how this federal funding will impact the thousands of Kansans who are fighting cancer.
KANSAS CITY, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids joined business and infrastructure leaders to celebrate passage of Davids' funding request to repair and upgrade the Fairfax-Jersey Creek Upper Levee, which has been overdue for critical maintenance since its construction in the 1940s.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that Kansas will receive $49.3 million this year under the bipartisan infrastructure law to upgrade and expand local transit in Kansas. $27.2 million of these funds will go to local transit projects in the Kansas City area.
OVERLAND PARK, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids hosted a roundtable with parents and health care professionals in the Third District to discuss the rising cost of insulin and her work to lower those costs for Kansans. Participants discussed how insulin costs affect them and their families, and how policies like the Davids-backed Affordable Insulin Now Act, which caps the cost of insulin at $35 a month, would benefit them.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids was named to the conference committee for the major economic package aimed at strengthening supply chains, reducing inflation, and increasing America's global competitiveness. The committee is a bipartisan group of Senators and Members of Congress tasked with negotiating a final package to send to the President's desk. Davids was named as a House conferee for the Small Business Committee.
Today, as oil and gas company CEOs testify before Congress about allegations of price-gouging, Representative Sharice Davids continued her efforts to get immediate relief to Kansans at the gas pump by suspending the federal gas tax. She has repeatedly urged the President and Congressional leadership to move forward on long-term energy and inflation solutions, including fixing our supply chains, making more goods in America, and investing in our clean energy economy.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids introduced bipartisan legislation to renew federal mental health grant programs for health centers, schools, and law enforcement. The REACHING Improved Mental Health Outcomes for Patients Act is led by Representatives Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Claudia Tenney (R-NY) and Angie Craig (D-MN) along with Davids and was the subject of today's House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing.
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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.
.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.