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The Hill: When Infrastructure Fails
By: Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03)
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on her vote to pass the American Rescue Plan, a COVID relief package that would help get the virus under control and provide the relief that Kansans desperately need:
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the passage of the Equality Act, which would ensure LGBTQ Americans are guaranteed the full protections of federal civil rights laws. Davids presided over the House floor during debate on the landmark legislation.
Today, U.S. Congresswoman Sharice Davids and U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman, Richard Glick asking him to consider expeditiously Governor Laura Kelly's emergency request to protect Kansans from the potentially severe economic consequences following the arctic blast last week.
The Shawnee Mission Post today reported on Representative Sharice Davids' work to address fraudulent small business loans that have impacted residents of the Kansas Third. Davids has called on the Small Business Administration to investigate these claims and ensure that aid is getting to small business owners who need it – not bad actors exploiting a critical relief program.
Representative Sharice Davids has called on the Small Business Administration (SBA) to investigate claims of fraudulent small business loans, including those happening in Johnson County.
KMBC reported this week on the $1.4 million in state and federal funding Rep. Sharice Davids helped secure for Lenexa business Dentec to manufacture personal protection equipment needed during the pandemic, such as face masks and N95 filters. The funding has allowed the company to open a new facility and hire 5 times the workers they started with.
As Kansas continues to experience extreme weather conditions, Representative Sharice Davids has urged President Joe Biden to support Governor Laura Kelly's state of emergency however possible.
Lenexa business Dentec has received around $1.4 million in state and federal funding to manufacture personal protection equipment (PPE), thanks in part to funding secured by Representative Sharice Davids. They are now in the process of expanding to open a new plant that will allow them to produce even more supplies needed to fight COVID, such as masks and N95 filters.
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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.