Congress

Overland Park has requested $850,000 in federal funds to help finance the replacement of nearly 200 aging traffic signal controllers across the city.  U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids' office supported the request through the annual federal appropriations process. Last week, the three-term...

On the first day of Hanukkah, local Jewish activists led a protest at U.S. Rep Sharice Davids Overland Park office, demanding she support a "permanent ceasefire" in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. More than a dozen protestors temporarily...

President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion spending package into law last month — and millions of it are headed to Johnson County. The federal funding includes $14.2 million in requests from Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and $43 million for...

By Tim Carpenter U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas is backing legislation to require social media companies and other communication service providers to follow a standardized process for disclosing information to law enforcement agencies on suspected illegal trafficking of counterfeit...

A recently passed federal bill is bringing money to water infrastructure projects in Johnson County. Passed by Congress on Nov. 6 and signed into law by President Joe Biden, the massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure package earmarks $454 million to improve...

By Laura Ziegler  A lifelong public servant, Dennis Moore was a centrist Democrat from Kansas who represented a Republican Congressional district for six terms. He held his seat largely because of his old-fashioned approach to public service. Dennis Moore died Tuesday,...

By Abigail Censky  While Kansas inches toward a 2022 vote that could reel back abortion rights, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids wants to enshrine access to the procedure in federal law so that states like her own can’t ban it. Her backing...

Federal money from a $715 billion infrastructure bill approved by the U.S. House Thursday could make the project to expand U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park richer, if the measure survives an eventual Senate conference. The prospective $15 million injection...

Less than 24 hours after U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ self quarantine ended, she hopped on a plane to Washington, D.C., to vote yes on the $2 trillion relief package signed into law by President Donald Trump Friday afternoon. Davids announced...

A day after United States drones carried out an attack that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, first term Rep. Sharice Davids issued a statement raising concerns about how the development will play out in the coming weeks. Davids' full...

Following House leaders' announcement Tuesday that they were introducing two articles of impeachment against President Trump related to his dealings with Ukraine, Rep. Sharice Davids issued a statement indicating that she planned to vote in favor of impeachment. In the...

Rep. Sharice Davids this afternoon is celebrating the advancement of a deal on the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, which is intended to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement established in 1994. House Democrats announced today they had tentatively come...