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KANSAS CITY, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids toured Workforce Partnership and sat down with their Executive Director to learn about the services they provide for both job seekers and employers in the Greater Kansas City Area. With career centers in Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte Counties, Workforce Partnership offers professional expertise and funding resources to employers and eligible job seekers. Davids currently serves as the Chair of the Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids toured Cherub Medical Supplies, a Shawnee-based supplier of pediatric medical devices that is grappling with long delays due to the current shortage of critical materials like semiconductors. Davids joined Cherub and another local company, Lenexa-based Reliable Medical Supplies, to urge passage of legislation that would reduce our reliance on foreign-made materials and deliver these lifesaving devices to Kansans in need.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) and Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY) introduced the Women's Business Centers Improvement Act, which would increase access to resources and opportunities for female entrepreneurs in Kansas and across the country. Davids and Tenney are reintroducing this bill after it passed last Congress with unanimous bipartisan support.
Representative Sharice Davids joined nearly a dozen of her colleagues to urge the Department of the Army to prioritize funding for flood mitigation and prevention projects along the lower Missouri River. The bipartisan, bicameral letter comes as the Department is beginning to allocate funding from the new bipartisan infrastructure law for projects in fiscal year 2022.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that Kansas will receive $225 million over five years from the bipartisan infrastructure law to repair and modernize bridges, creating good-paying jobs for Kansans across the state.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that Kansas has received a record $72.1 million to help families afford energy costs this winter—more than double the state's typical annual investment. Davids is the only member of the Kansas delegation to vote for the American Rescue Plan, which delivered this increase in energy cost assistance to Kansans across the state.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids joined a Kansan impacted by unexpected medical bills and other health advocates to applaud newly-enacted consumer protections against surprise medical billing practices. Created by a 2020 law known as the "No Surprises Act," which also included Davids' original legislation to promote insurer transparency so that patients don't unintentionally receive out-of-network care, these protections took effect on January 1, 2022.
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection:
Today, Representative Sharice Davids shared how she and her team worked throughout 2021 to make government work for all Kansans. Through townhalls, live conversations, casework, constituent communications, and signature legislative achievements, Davids highlighted how she worked to serve the Kansas Third District all year long.
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A Kansas City, Kansas, Underground Railroad site that sheltered enslaved people lacks federal recognition, and local lawmakers just introduced a bill to change that.
Why it matters: Quindaro Townsite is not open to the public, and the federal funding that comes with a National Historic Landmark designation would make that possible.
All members of the Kansas House delegation including Democrat Sharice Davids and Republicans Tracey Mann, Ron Estes and Derek Schmidt voted in favor of the bill.
An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet from Wichita with an Army helicopter near the nation’s capital was approved by the House Tuesday, but key senators and the families of the 67 victims think the bill still needs to be strengthened.
Transportation officials gathered on Capitol Hill to prepare for the 2026 FIFA World Cup’s massive visitor influx.
U.S. Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) said she hosted the second in a series of Capitol Hill briefings on Tuesday, April 14.
Increases in diesel and gasoline prices are already impacting farmers as they plant crops in Sumner County. Kansas State University economist Gregg Ibendahl estimates that the average Kansas grain farm will spend an additional $10,000 on fuel this season.
Kansas State-Olathe campus representatives joined other local governments Tuesday to highlight new federal funding secured in February by 3rd District Rep. Sharice Davids and Sen. Jerry Moran.
K-State Olathe is set to receive $5 million later this year to purchase lab equipment for the school’s supply chain research and advanced manufacturing curriculum. The equipment will support a $4 million expansion the campus opened in January for those programs.
On April 7, Rep. Sharice Davids joined local leaders to announce 14 projects in Kansas’ Third District totaling $17.8 million. The funding will support workforce training, flood mitigation, road and bridge safety, law enforcement, and other community priorities.
The FDA gave accelerated approval for a groundbreaking drug that helps treat Hunter syndrome, a rare disease that affects fewer than 500 people in the United States. It's mainly diagnosed among boys.
Hunter syndrome has not had an FDA-approved treatment in 20 years, until now.
Rep. Sharice Davids announced Monday that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation’s (ECKAN) Head Start program with a new federal grant.
The $3.7 million will be used to continue providing early education opportunities and family support services to children and families in Anderson and Miami counties.
Representative Sharice Davids celebrated the reopening of the STARBASE facility at the Kansas City Readiness Center. The program offers hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) learning for elementary students at no cost to schools. Governor Laura Kelly, Senator Roger Marshall, Representative Derek Schmidt, and local leaders, teachers, and students joined the event.
Farm-state Dems say Argentina beef measure brings volatility, not lower prices
Two Ag Committee Democrats will argue to President Donald Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins today that recent efforts to increase imports of Argentinian beef will do little to lower prices while spurring market volatility.