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Representative Sharice Davids is inviting residents of Kansas' Third District to participate in her office's "Holiday Cards for Heroes" program, a chance for community members to send holiday cards to active service members. Residents are encouraged to drop off cards at Davids' Overland Park or Kansas City offices starting today through Monday, December 16.
Representative Sharice Davids has announced the winner of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for Kansas' Third District: Samuel DeZube, Ike Summerlin, Bradley Lichtmann and Andrew Kampschroeder from Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies.
Their app entitled "SafeSpace" compiles life-saving texting and calling hotlines for those who are suffering from depression, anxiety, sexual assault, drug abuse, or other forms of mental illness.
Today, Representative Sharice Davids will introduce the Insurance Accountability and Transparency Act to help prevent surprise medical billing. The legislation requires insurance companies to update their provider directories at least once every six months, so patients don't unintentionally receive out-of-network care.
Today, the House of Representatives passed Rep. Sharice Davids' bill, the Successful Entrepreneurship for Reservists and Veterans Act, or SERV Act. This bipartisan legislation helps veteran business owners succeed by studying the barriers they face, including lack of access to credit. It also increases outreach and promotion of small business programs available to veterans.
This Veterans Day, Representative Sharice Davids will hold a breakfast to honor Kansas Third District Veterans on November 11 at Broadmoor Bistro in Overland Park, KS.
Continuing her work to lower health care costs for Kansans, Rep. Sharice Davids today announced her co-sponsorship of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3). This transformational legislation gives Medicare the power to negotiate with drug companies for lower drug prices, and will make those lower prices available to all Americans, no matter where they get their insurance.
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's proposed rule allowing foster care and adoption agencies that receive federal funding to deny services to LGBTQ parents on religious grounds:
"It's unacceptable that this Administration is proposing a rule allowing foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ parents, at the expense of the American taxpayer no less.
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement on House passage of H. Res. 660:
"The resolution I voted for today establishes an open, transparent process for the committees conducting the impeachment inquiry, which includes public bipartisan hearings. Kansans and the American people deserve to see the facts for themselves."
Today, Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) questioned Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg during the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing "The Boeing 737 MAX: Examining the Design, Development, and Marketing of the Aircraft."
In her questioning, Davids pressed Muilenburg on his company's decision to minimize pilot training requirements for the 737 MAX.
Representative Sharice Davids voted today to pass the SHIELD Act (H.R. 4617), a set of common-sense, bipartisan solutions to counter foreign interference in U.S. elections and strengthen our democracy.
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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.