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The healthcare industry is one of the fastest growing industries and largest employers in the country. In Chicago alone, healthcare encompasses an estimated 12.2 percent – or $69.7 billion – of the region’s total economic production. But that growth is causing a shortage of qualified healthcare professionals – not just doctors and nurses, but also community health workers, nursing assistants, paramedics, home health aides, and lab technicians, just to name a few.
- Tomorrow morning, October 23, 2019 at 9:30 a.m., Ways & Means will mark up H.R. 3398, the Pathways to Health Careers Act; H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act; H.R. 4650, the Medicare Dental Act; H.R. 4665, the Medicare Vision Act; and H.R. 4618, the Medicare Hearing Act.
- These are all bills which Representative Davis either sponsored or co-sponsored
- Livestream of the hearing is available HERE.
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My friend and colleague Representative Elijah Cummings was called home today. Elijah Cummings was a man of the people. He was a tireless, effective, dedicated public servant, a man of faith and humanity and dignity, a man who committed his life to the quest for social, economic and environmental justice. I know that, because of his life's work, hundreds other young men and women will rise to follow in his footsteps. America will miss him, this Congress will miss him, the host of those who called him family or friend will miss him and I will miss him.
Washington, DC: On October 16, 2019, Representatives Danny K. Davis, Sean Casten and Abigail Spanberger championed legislation to protect student loan borrowers experiencing financial hardship by stopping an onerous practice known as capitalization after a deferment or forbearance. The End Capitalization for Struggling Borrowers Act is included in the Democratic College Affordability Act to lower the cost of college and reauthorize the Higher Education Act.
Reps. García, Davis, Gallego and Grijalva Demand Answers from ICE about Militarization of Operations
“Urban Warfare” training facility modeled after Chicago and Arizona neighborhoods is of deep concern
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Representatives Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Danny K. Davis (D-I.L.), along with Senators Jeanne Shaheen, (D-NH), and Pat Toomey (R-PA), introduced the Fair Sugar Policy Act of 2019, legislation that would provide relief for consumers and businesses by making commonsense reforms to the U.S. sugar program.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) introduced the FAFSA Act (the Financial Aid Fairness for Students Act) to repeal a law that makes it all but impossible for people with a drug conviction, no matter how petty, to receive federal financial aid for higher education.
The law in question, Section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act, suspends federal college aid from FAFSA for any person who is convicted of a drug offense. The law has discouraged thousands from even applying for aid and has denied aid from many as well.
Sens. Van Hollen, Portman, Merkley and Reps. Davis, Schweikert Announce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Fix AOTC Inequity