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April 25, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced a bipartisan bill to help address the nation’s opioid crisis. H.R.

April 25, 2018
Davis Opening Statement at Human Resources Subcommittee (Ways and Means Committee) Hearing on Jobs and Opportunity: Employer Perspectives on the
Jobs Gap
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing.
April 25, 2018

Today, Congressman Danny K. Davis joined with a record number of cosponsors (158), who comprise more than 80 percent of House Democrats, in support of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) bill (H.R. 1291) to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. Davis has consistently supported Statehood for DC during his tenure in elected office.

April 16, 2018

Dear Deputy Secretary Sullivan:

We write to express our dismay about recent reports of state-sponsored Holocaust distortion and denial taking place in Poland and Ukraine. These developments are unacceptable, especially given today’s global surge of anti-Semitism.

April 16, 2018

Donald J. Trump

The President

The White House

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

April 14, 2018

I join in condemning the criminal use of chemical weapons in Syria. I support a collective, international response to prosecute the use of such outlawed weapons as war crimes and I join those who have called for accountability for the use of the use these weapons.

April 13, 2018

U.S. Representative Danny K. Davis (IL07) today joined Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Keith Ellison (MN-05), Barbara Lee (CA-13), and Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr. (GA-04) in the following statement in advance of demonstrations scheduled to take place on Friday within the territory of Gaza.

April 13, 2018
Mr. Speaker, today we are scheduled to engage in a recurring ritual of fiction and fantasy consideration of a so-called Balanced Budget Amendment.
Budgets, expenditures and revenues, are simply a statement of our priorities.
April 12, 2018
For our Subcommittee, the right approach must include addressing structural barriers in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program or TANF. Otherwise our policies will fail our rural, urban, and suburban constituents who hit these barriers daily and are being left behind. I work closely with a number of programs in Chicago that work alongside employers to provide real opportunities for people who have been left behind by the labor market and are hitting walls every time they try to get good jobs and make a better life. But as I talk to these outstanding workforce development programs, I am struck by how few of them get any support from TANF, which is in this Subcommittee's jurisdiction.