U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today announced open office hours for the month of August. Davis will meet with constituents individually or in small groups about issues important to them. In addition to regularly scheduled meetings, Davis’ office has held more than 100 either traveling help desks with staff or open office hours with Congressman Davis since being in office. For Constituents Meetings will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. No appointments are necessary but can be made b...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) began his month-long discussions on tax reform with businesses and workers at a roundtable with job creators in Springfield followed by a meeting with the owner and employees of Fox and Hounds Day Spa in Bloomington. The House is working alongside the Senate and White House to pass comprehensive tax reform to lower rates and simplify the tax code for job creators and middle-income families. Major tax reform has not been done since 1986. “Our federal tax code has n...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today released the following statement after the Senate failed to advance a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. “I’m extremely disappointed and frustrated by the Senate’s failure to advance the process to repeal and replace Obamacare. Every vote against going to a conference committee so we could find a way to help those struggling under Obamacare was a vote to keep the status quo. The status quo that has increased health care premiums by 108 percent in Illinois...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today announced that he will host House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas), Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), and other committee members at this year’s Farm Progress Show in Decatur on August 30, 2017. The committee announced today that it will hold a listening session, “The Next Farm Bill, Conversations in the Field,” to gather input from local farmers and agriculture leaders. "The Farm Progress Show is the nation's largest outdo...
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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis and Darin LaHood today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has released the $14 million in funds from the TIGER grant the city of Springfield received for phase two of the rail improvement project. Davis and LaHood recently met with federal transportation officials urging the timely release of the grant.
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today voted for H.R. 3364, to increase economic and political pressure on Iran, North Korea, and Russia, which overwhelmingly passed the House. “Any time a foreign entity threatens our sovereignty, we must have a measurable response. Any time the largest state sponsor of terror threatens our greatest ally in the Middle East and repeatedly breaks a deal between our two countries, we must have a measurable response. Any time a country threatens us with continued bal...
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today advocated for passage of H.R. 3298, a bill to help U.S. Capitol Police officers injured in the line of duty. This bipartisan bill passed the House with unanimous support. Davis honored the memory of U.S. Capitol Police Officers John Gibson and Jacob Chestnut, who were killed in the line of duty on 19 years ago today, and recognized the heroic actions by Special Agents David Bailey and Crystal Griner, who were injured in the line of duty d...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) joined Fox Business Network host Liz Claman on Wednesday to discuss how both sides should come together to fix health care, reform our broken tax code, invest in infrastructure, and address other major issues. Davis also discussed his record of working with both sides to fix health care with the passage of the Hire More Heroes Act, which President Obama signed into law last Congress. Davis called on Democrats to do the same and work with Republicans to repeal and ...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) in a post on Medium today recognizes ‘Made in America' Week and the need to reform our broken tax code. The following are excerpts from Davis’ Medium post. Click here to view the entire post. “President Trump has established this week (July 16–22) as "'Made in America' Week” and hosted 'Made in America' products from all 50 states, including a Caterpillar 966M wheel loader made in Illinois on the South Lawn of the White House. While President Trump continues to wo...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, released this statement after the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will fund a multimillion-dollar Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). “Agriculture research like that done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is important to the future of farming and our economic success. I’m excited about this grant...
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