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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.
March 27, 2018

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Danny K. Davis joined with Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) who spearheaded an effort by 104 House Members to call for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw its proposed Refusal of Care rule.

March 14, 2018

On Wednesday, 83 House Democrats, including Representative Danny K. Davis released a letter they signed to House Leadership in both parties and to Appropriators calling for the Dream Act to be attached to the Omnibus spending bill the House will vote on this week or next.

March 8, 2018
On Monday, March 5, 2018 I issued a statement in which I made crystal clear that “I have a lifetime record of rejecting, condemning and actively opposing all forms of hatred, bigotry and separatism based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability or language including specifically anti-Semitism.
March 5, 2018
Recently the ultra-right propaganda site The Daily Caller attempted to impugn my character, and more significantly divide and separate African Americans and Jewish Americans, by portraying me as sympathetic to anti-Semitic views. This smear was picked up and rebroadcast by the Republican National Committee.
March 1, 2018

WASHINGTON, DC –Today, three Ranking Members from the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), requesting the Committee provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) with at least an additional $560 milli

March 1, 2018
ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN OF 2018
Protecting America’s Communities from Weapons of War
The legislation will ban the sale, transfer, production, and importation of the following:
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February 26, 2018

Background on Gallagher/Davis bi-partisan Trauma Informed Care Resolution: