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Representative Sharice Davids has been named Chair of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access. The new leadership role will allow Davids to support small businesses in Kansas and across the country through open access to loans, credit and capital, as well as through fair and meaningful tax relief.
Representative Sharice Davids today announced her third annual "Valentines for Veterans" program to collect and distribute Valentine's Day cards to veterans in Kansas' 3rd District.
Residents are encouraged to mail cards to Davids' office in Kansas City or email a digital card to KS03valentinesforvets@gmail.com starting today through Friday, February 12. Davids will then drop off the cards at the Kansas City VA.
Today, Kansas City Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05) and Sharice Davids (KS-03) made a friendly wager with Tampa Bay area Reps. Kathy Castor (FL14) and Charlie Crist (FL13) on the outcome of Super Bowl LV. If Tampa Bay wins, the Kansas City representatives will provide world-famous KC barbeque and wear Buccaneers masks on the House Floor when Congress is back in session, and if Kansas City wins, the Tampa members will provide beloved local Latin guava pastries, flan and Cuban sandwiches and wear Kansas City masks on the Floor.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Vice Chair Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the confirmation of Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation:
Rep. Sharice Davids has nominated 31 students from the Kansas Third District for an appointment to a U.S. Service Academy.
"As the daughter of an Army veteran, I'm honored to nominate hardworking, bright, and talented young people from Kansas' Third District to our nation's military service academies," said Davids. "These are some of the best universities in the country and help build strong leaders in our armed forces and beyond. I look forward to seeing all that these young Kansans accomplish."
Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids toured a vaccination site in Wyandotte County, where she spoke with public health officials and health care workers about the need for increased vaccines in the region.
Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) has been named Vice Chair of the full House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The new leadership role will allow Davids to help shape infrastructure policy in Kansas and across the country that will create jobs, improve public safety, tackle the climate crisis, and build our economy back better.
Representative Sharice Davids has re-introduced her bill, the SUPPLIES Act, which would increase the supply of equipment like face masks, hospital gowns, ventilators, and testing materials needed to get the coronavirus under control. The legislation would also promote manufacturing these goods at small and medium businesses in the United States.
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris:
Emphasizing the need to get relief to Kansas communities, Representative Sharice Davids today hosted a virtual roundtable on the importance of state and local funding being included in the next COVID relief package. Davids was joined by Lieutenant Governor David Toland, KCK Mayor David Alvey, Kansas NEA President Mark Farr, and Lenexa City Councilwoman Julie Sayers.
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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.