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May 18, 2018

Congressman Danny K. Davis today expressed his outrage at the latest attempt by the Trump administration to use hyper-partisan, anti-science, and misogynistic ideology and rhetoric to slash reproductive health care, and health care in general for women especially low income women.

May 14, 2018

The killing of 50+ and wounding of 1700+ Palestinians protesting the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem today is human rights catastrophe. President Trump’s reversal of long standing policy to settle this question according to U.N. resolution which the U.S.

May 9, 2018
Over the course of this Congress, our Subcommittee has heard from a number of witnesses about approaches that are working to connect people with good jobs in our communities.
The successful strategies had a number of things in common.
May 9, 2018

At least 4,075 Blacks and some white sympathizers were lynched up until the 1981 death of Michael Donald, the last recorded lynching in the U.S. Davis stated: "During 1919 in Arkansas there were race riots near Elaine, Ark because Black farmers were attempting to organize to get better prices for their crops.

May 8, 2018

"The decision announced today by President Trump to take steps to withdraw the United States fro the JCPOA, the 2015 agreement negotiated by President Obama between Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States — plus Germany and the European Union to verifiably sharply limit the Iranian nuclear program makes

May 8, 2018

"The decision announced today by President Trump to take steps to withdraw the United States from the JCPOA, the 2015 agreement negotiated by President Obama between Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States — plus Germany and the European Union to verifiably sharply limit the Iranian nuclear program makes our

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.