Press Releases
The Board of Parents as Teachers (https://parentsasteachers.org/) will present Rep. Danny K. Davis a lifetime achievement award for his steadfast support of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) which provides pregnant women and families, particularly those considered at-risk, necessary resources and skills to raise children who are physically, socially, and emotionally healthy and ready to learn. In the most recent fiscal year Chicago was funded $8,744,850.
Washington, D.C. – Today Rep. Danny K. Davis voted to pass the historic Natural Resources Management Act, a bipartisan conservation and public lands package that includes permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and designates approximately 1.3 million acres of wilderness, 693,000 acres of recreation and conservation areas, and two mineral withdrawal areas totaling 370,000 acres, protecting nearly 2.4 million acres of public lands in total from future mining operations.
I strongly oppose, and will do all in my power to block, President Trump's "Gag Rule," a proposed regulation which would be devastating women’s basic health rights. This is an assault on the health care of the most vulnerable and under-served women and families in our nation and would heartlessly cut off access to "Title X" affordable contraception, critical health information and preventive health care. Title X is the only federal grant initiative dedicated to providing family planning services to low-income and otherwise under-served individuals. Title X is used by millions of women.
The President's rambling and contradictory statement, presented without any evidence-based justification declaring an emergency over a crisis that doesn’t exist – even going so far to say today that he ‘didn’t need to do this' is wrong on so many levels and unacceptable. After failing to convince Mexico, the American people or Congress to pay for his ineffective, wasteful, multi-billion concrete wall, the President is trying a desperate end-run around Congress with his unlawful emergency declaration.
In the digital age, frauds and scams are an unfortunate part of doing business online. Social Security has seen a spike in phishing scams, and we want to protect you as best we can.
Please take note; there’s a Social Security impersonation scam going around right now.
The Earned Income Tax Creditlifted an estimated 10.6 million people out of poverty in 2014, more than half of them children. In 2018, 25 million workers received more than $63 billion in EITC refunds. Do you qualify? Don’t guess. Know. Check out the #EITCAssistant - https://go.usa.gov/xRFGE
Congressman Danny K. Davis (IL-7), a member of the Ways and Means
Committee with jurisdiction over federal policy with respect to
tax-exempt organizations and child welfare, released the following
statement regarding the Trump administration’s decision to allow
foster care entities to permit foster care placement agencies to
discriminate using federal funds:
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms, in blatant violation of
the first amendment and the most fundamental underpinnings of our
Congressman Danny K. Davis today called on Department of Health and
Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to cease evading and stonewalling
Congressional requests to appear in person before the Energy and
Commerce's Oversight Subcommittee and fully address the entire array
of questions regarding the thousands of children separated from their
parents seeking Refugee status in the United States. Under the Trump
Administration's inhumane “zero-tolerance policy” these children were
January 17, 2019 This week, House Democrats voted to: |