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WASHINGTON, DC (march 9, 2011) - Rep. danny k. davis (D-IL) issued the following statement ON THE homeland hearings on the extent of radicalization in the american muslim comminuity and that community’s response

Dear Colleague,

We write to share our thoughts with you about Congressional action regarding the ongoing occupation of Iraq and to make the case for fully funding the safe withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq over a clear timeline.

By framing their discussion of the war in terms of winning and losing, the Bush administration seeks to portray critics of their policies as opposed to victory, or supportive of defeat.

Today, I joined my colleagues, Representative Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) in forming the Bi-Partisan, Bi-Cameral Congressional Sugar Reform Caucus. Nationally, high sugar prices were responsible for the loss of 112,000 jobs in sugar-using industries between 1997 and 2009.

WASHINGTON, DC (march 1, 2011) - Rep. danny k. davis (D-IL) issued the following statement before the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives

WASHINGTON, DC (FEBRUARY 25, 2011) - Rep. danny k. davis (D-IL) issued the following statement CONGRADULATING THE BOEING COMPANY ON THE Contract Awarded to Develop the Nation's Next Generation Aerial Refueling Tanker

REP. DAVIS FLOOR STATEMENT ON THE FY12 BUDGET

FEBRURARY 10, 2011

Mr. Speaker, as we prepare to debate the budget, and as we have already begun to debate, it is a budget that in many instances and in many ways spells gloom and doom for people who have been expecting and looking for some opportunity to move our government and our country forward.

In order to really understand how we got to where we are, I think it is important for us to remember that President Clinton left President Bush with a 10-year projected surplus of $5.6 trillion in 2001.

Washington, DC - Forty seven years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared in his State of the Union address, a legislative program titled the War on Poverty. During this time, the national poverty rate was nineteen percent and there was an expansion in government's role in social welfare programs producing a decline for the next decade.

REP DAVIS TO SERVE ON OVERSIGHT AND HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE 112TH CONGRESS

JANUARY 25, 2011

Washington, DC - In the 112th Congress, Rep. Danny K. Davis will serve on the Oversight Committee as Ranking Member of the Healthcare, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives Subcommittee and the Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy Subcommittee. In addition, Rep. Davis will serve on the Homeland Security Committee on the Subcommittees on Transportation Security and on Oversight, Investigations and Management.