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Today, Representative Sharice Davids continued oversight of a federal program that finances small, early-stage startups in her role as Chair of the Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access. She spoke with program participants, including local firm Holleway Capital Partners, on recent improvements to the program as she pushed for further efforts to improve diversity and increase efficiency.
Today, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Representative Sharice Davids voted to provide additional resources for domestic violence shelters, pushing to reauthorize the primary source of federal funding for these critical services for the first time since 2010.
Today, during National Head Start Awareness Month, Representative Sharice Davids announced the Department of Health & Human Services awarded a renewal of $3,481,376 to the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute's Early Head Start projects, known as Project Eagle. The renewed funding will be used to prepare vulnerable children in Wyandotte County for life inside and outside of the classroom through programs focusing on early learning, health, and family well-being.
Representative Sharice Davids, Vice Chair of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement after the Subcommittee on Aviation's oversight hearing of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
"Nearly three years after the Lion Air 610 crash, the first of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes that claimed 346 lives and raised serious questions about the safety of our skies, we are following up to make sure the mistakes that led to those tragedies never happen again.
In a House Small Business Committee hearing today, Representative Sharice Davids highlighted the impact of global supply chain challenges on small businesses, particularly in the Kansas City region—a major shipping hub. As product shortages and shipping delays affect companies and consumers around the world, Davids questioned witness Chris O'Brien of major freight services company C.H. Robinson on his suggestions to address the unique challenges that small businesses are facing during this time.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) awarded three grants to implement Crisis Intervention Teams in the Kansas Third District. These teams will work to embed mental and behavioral health services with law enforcement, helping promote safe communities. Recipients include:
Today, Representative Sharice Davids joined local leaders from the Kansas City Metropolitan Area to celebrate the start of construction on a $540 million project with the Kansas City Levees project. When completed, the project will reduce the risk of flooding, improve the reliability and resiliency of the systems, strengthen aging infrastructure, and ensure the levees and floodwalls perform during future flood events. From full construction funding being announced in 2019 to today's groundbreaking, Rep.
KANSAS CITY, KS – Today, Representative Sharice Davids welcomed the First Lady Jill Biden and Small Business Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman to Kansas City, Kansas for a roundtable discussion with Hispanic small business owners and community members.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids released a new report examining the status and safety of bridges in the Third District of Kansas, the first installment in her office's "State of our Systems" series. The series will detail the most pressing infrastructure needs in the district and how Davids is working to bring federal funds to those projects, starting with bridges.
Today, during National Mental Illness Awareness Week, Representative Sharice Davids announced two grants from the Department of Health & Human Services to support mental health services in the Third District of Kansas. The grants are as follows:
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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.