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Statement on demonstrations in Gaza
April 13, 2018
Press Release

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.

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Remarks on the Balanced Budget Amendment
April 13, 2018
Press Release
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.
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Rep. Davis Opening Statement at Human Resources Subcommittee Hearing on "Jobs and Opportunity: Local Perspectives on the Jobs Gap"
April 12, 2018
Press Release
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.
Issues:Economy and JobsTax Reform
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Davis Will Hold Town Hall Meeting: Gun Violence and What to do About It April 7, 2018
April 2, 2018
Press Release

Invitation from Congressman Danny K. Davis:

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More than 100 Democrats to Call on Department of Health and Human Services to Put Patients First and Withdraw Discriminatory Refusal of Care Rule
March 27, 2018
Press Release

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.

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83 Democrats Demand Dream Act Be Added to Omnibus & That Funding for Deportations, Detention and Walls Be Stripped
March 14, 2018
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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.

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Statement of Danny K. Davis on anti-Semitism (follow up)
March 8, 2018
Press Release
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.
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Statement of Danny K. Davis on anti-Semitism
March 5, 2018
Press Release
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.
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Neal, Larson, and Davis Call for Social Security Funding Boost to Reduce Wait Times and Backlogs
March 1, 2018
Press Release

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

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Rep. Davis is Originial Co-Sponsor of Legislation to Ban the Sale, Transfer, Production and Importation of Weapons of War
March 1, 2018
Press Release
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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