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Congressman Danny K. Davis announced today that FEMA has begun accepting applications for funeral assistance for Illinois residents who've lost loved ones to COVID-19. Davis helped pass the funeral assistance program as part of the American Rescue Plan.
Today, a bipartisan group of 27 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to reverse a legal memo issued in the waning days of the Trump administration that would require thousands of people on home confinement to return to federal prison.
Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-CT) and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn a harmful rule adopted by the Trump Administration. The rule, “Hearings Held by Administrative Appeals Judges of the Appeals Council” (85 Fed. Reg.
On March 17, 2021, Representatives Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and Gwen Moore (D-WI) along with Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Jobs for Economic Recovery Act to create job opportunities for workers and spur economic recovery.
The ongoing lawsuit, Kennedy v. McCarthy, is a class action alleging that the U.S. Army failed to properly consider discharge upgrade applications from certain servicemembers who are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, and other mental health conditions.