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September 19, 2017

In response to constituents who have called my office regarding the hacking of personal data from as many as 143 million Americans from Equifax, the U.S. Public Interest Group (PIRG), a national non-profit federation of state Public Interest Groups, is offering the following guide which may be of assistance in helping indivduals protect themseves from identity theft.

September 19, 2017

Today Congressman Danny K. Davis restated his oppostion to the Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

September 12, 2017
Washington, D.C.- On September 12, 2017, Senator Al Franken (D-MN), Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL), and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) introduced the Fostering Success in Higher Education Act of 2017 to provide robust support to help foster and homeless youth succeed in college. Congressman Bobby Scott, Ranking Member of the Education and Workforce Committee, and Congresswoman Susan Davis, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, join as original co-sponsors and will advance this bill as part of the Democratic "Aim Higher" Campaign to make higher education work for all students.
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September 8, 2017
The Congress sent the President legislation today preventing a government shutdown by lifting the debt ceiling and adopting a continuing resolution funding the government into December. Attached to the bill was initial funding for individuals and small businesses impacted by hurricane Harvey.
August 12, 2017

As most Americans watched in disbelief and outrage ultra right
wingers, white nationalists, self proclaimed KKK members and Nazis
rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia to assert their re-emergence as a
legitimate force in U.S. social and political life and an integral
part of the Trump coalition. The President condemned the violence and

August 9, 2017

Congressman Danny K. Davis joined with other members of Congress in a letter to Secretary of State Tillerson regarding the escallating situation in Korea

Dear Secretary Tillerson,

August 7, 2017

Everyone in America is likely an immigrant, the direct descendent of immigrants, the direct descendent of men and women abducted, transported and forced into slavery or a descendant of Native Americans who originally inhabited this land more than 12,000 years ago.

July 28, 2017

Washington, D.C.- On July 28, 2017, Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), and Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-CA) introduced the Home Visiting Works Act of 2017 to support children and families by doubling federal funding for evidence-based home visiting.

July 26, 2017
President Trump's arbitrary announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in any capacity in our armed forces comes on the 69th anniversary of President Harry Truman's executive order desegregating the military, in which he declared "equal treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services." This is a giant, dangerous step backwards for all Americans.
July 25, 2017

Next Wednesday's (7/26) trauma-informed care briefing will be live streamed here: https://youtu.be/Ih923y_b-z0

The Need to Address Childhood Trauma: Implications for Child Welfare and Education

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