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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. These extreme, inhumane views are inconsistent with the constitutional rights of women and modern health care science. Davis fully endorsed the statement issued by the Congressional Pro Choice Caucus today:
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. voted for is an abandonment of our commitments to be an honest and fair broker of diplomatic efforts to achieve security, peace and justice for all parties.
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. More than 200 were killed during this period of unrest and upheaval where bands of whites would just ride in on some Black people ... This business of lynching is seriously etched in the history, evolution and development of this country.
"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 our country less safe and creates greater tension and uncertainty in the Middle East.
"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 country less safe and creates greater tension and uncertainty in the Middle East.
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. 5590, the Opioid Addiction Action Plan, would require the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid (CMS) to develop an “Opioid Addiction Action Plan” to find innovative ways to fight this epidemic and help prevent opioid abuse.
Reps. LaHood and Davis, both members of the Ways and Means Committee, issued this statement following the bill’s introduction:
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.
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.