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Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that Kansas will receive $5,847,059 this year under the bipartisan infrastructure law to install electric vehicle (EV) charging stations along key roads and highways. These investments will create good-paying jobs to help protect Kansas' environment and support American car manufacturers' rapidly-growing EV production.
Last week, Representative Sharice Davids voted to pass the Postal Service Reform Act, bipartisan legislation to put the U.S. Postal Service on stronger financial footing and improve reliability after years of disastrous cuts and delays under Postmaster General DeJoy. The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation later this week.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that AmeriCorps awarded $689,595 to the United Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS to improve community health and alleviate poverty by placing AmeriCorps VISTA members in the Kansas Third. This funding, renewed for the eighth year, allows 35 year-round and 20 summer members to work full-time on fundraising, grant writing, research, and volunteer recruitment to engage, empower, and improve the community.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that the first round of transit funding under the historic bipartisan infrastructure law is heading to Kansas to strengthen public transportation systems, support transit jobs, and make urgently needed investments. Davids helped lead these investments to passage through her role as Vice Chair of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.
On Friday, Representative Sharice Davids voted to pass major economic legislation through the House that would address current supply chain issues and promote long-term American competitiveness. The America COMPETES Act passed with Davids' amendment to ensure small and mid-sized manufacturers are given opportunities to participate in federal supply chain upgrades.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids voted to pass major economic legislation aimed at addressing current supply chain issues and promoting long-term American competitiveness. The America COMPETES Act contains several of Davids' priorities, including incentives for domestic semiconductor manufacturing, resources to strengthen supply chains and reduce inflation, and policies that will promote American global leadership amongst countries like China.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that Kansas will receive $58.6 million in new federal funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law to clean up more than 5,400 hazardous, abandoned oil and gas wells that are polluting backyards, recreation areas, and public spaces across Kansas. The historic investments to clean up these sites will create good-paying, union jobs, introduce new economic opportunity, and reduce dangerous methane leaks.
Today, as the House considers major economic legislation to strengthen supply chains and increase America's global competitiveness, Representative Sharice Davids introduced an amendment that would ensure small businesses are included that effort. Speaking on the House floor, Davids drove home the need to address rising costs by making more goods in America—and urged her colleagues not to forget about small and mid-sized manufacturers like those in the Third District.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced the launch of her fourth annual "Valentines for Vets" program to collect and distribute Valentine's Day cards to veterans and caregivers in the Kansas Third District.
Residents are encouraged to mail cards to Davids' office in Kansas City or email a card message to KS03valentinesforvets@gmail.com starting today through Saturday, February 12. Davids will then deliver the submitted cards to Kansas veterans and caregivers.
Last week, Representative Sharice Davids penned a guest column in the Kansas City Star on new consumer protections that she helped pass into law to prevent surprise medical billing. The protections, which went into effect on January 1, ban unexpected medical expenses in situations from emergency room visits to routine surgeries and much more.
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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.