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Today, Representative Sharice Davids welcomed U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to Kansas City, KS to tout the bipartisan infrastructure law, which has already started to advance long-overdue infrastructure projects in the Kansas Third.
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:
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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.