U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill) today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Nutrition Service (FNS) has awarded a Farm to School Program planning grant to Sola Gratia Farm in Urbana in the amount of $47,960. They were one of only three recipients in Illinois. The Farm to School Program supports a wide range of activities that increase the amount of local foods served in child nutrition programs and teach children about food and agriculture. Sola Gratia Farm will partner wi...
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U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill) today voted to override President’s Trump’s veto of House Joint Resolution 76 (H.J. Res. 76), which reversed the Trump Administration’s attempt to delay and revise implementation of President Obama’s Student Borrower Defense Rule. “Providing student loan debt relief is one of my top priorities,” said Rep. Davis. “That is why I joined my Democratic colleagues in voting to support students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges and provide them with debt...
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U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill) released the following statement after Democrats in the U.S. House rejected Republican input on police reform and passed their own partisan legislation: “I am fully supportive of enacting police reform at the federal level, but the partisan process Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer have chosen will not lead to police reform being enacted into law. Democrats in the House refused to incorporate Republican input, while Democrats in the Senate declined many R...
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U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill) today reiterated his support for nationwide and local calls for police reforms. Rep. Davis is co-sponsoring the Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere (JUSTICE) Act. The goal of the JUSTICE Act is to increase police transparency, accountability and performance so law enforcement can better serve their communities. “We have a chance to enact real, meaningful police reform, but we can only do so if both sides are willing to work to...
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U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill) today co-sponsored the Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere (JUSTICE) Act. The goal of the JUSTICE Act is to increase police transparency, accountability and performance so law enforcement can better serve their communities. “George Floyd’s tragic murder showed our country just how much work we have to do to restore trust and ensure equal justice under the law,” said Rep. Davis. “That’s why the JUSTICE Act is so critically need...
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Opening remarks, as prepared, of U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (IL-13) from today’s markup of the surface transportation reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2): Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for bringing us together today for this mark-up. So far, this highway reauthorization process has been a disappointment. At the beginning of this Congress, when Ranking Member Graves asked me to serve as the Ranking Member of Highways and Transit, I didn’t hesitate to accept because I knew this day would come. N...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill) today announced that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Big Read grants to the Edwardsville Public Library and The Academy of Lifelong Learning at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield. The NEA awarded 84 grants nationally. The Big Read program brings communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing a book. The funds are used to form and administer community reading groups. Learn more about the program here. The E...
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U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (IL-13) today signed onto a bipartisan letter to House leadership urging them to include COVID-19 relief for National Heritage Areas, including the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area, in a future recovery bill. This action followed a request from Looking for Lincoln, the non-profit dedicated to supporting the heritage area. The letter requests that, "language be included in any stimulus or recovery package to allow the National Park Service (NPS) to temporari...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) on Monday introduced H.R. 7130 - One Federal Decision Act (OFDA) to make the federal permitting and environmental review processes more efficient for major infrastructure projects by enacting sensible reforms. The goal of the OFDA is to reduce project delays and save taxpayer dollars without reducing the effectiveness of the environmental review process. This legislation codifies into law President Trump's One Federal Decision Executive Order which was signed back i...
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U.S. Representatives Rodney Davis (IL-13), Mike Bost (IL-12), and John Shimkus (IL-15) today announced that America’s Central Port in Granite City has been awarded $1,268,800 from the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration. This grant, awarded through the Marine Highway Program, will be used as part of the port district’s Container Handling and Securing Equipment Project. Specifically, the funds will be used to support the purchase of a 275-ton crane, eighteen cameras and their i...
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