Danny Davis

Addressing these challenges is essential in safeguarding our communities and enhancing the resilience of eastern North Carolina against the detrimental effects of flooding.

Unless modified in WRDA 2024, the disparity between projected costs reflect in IIJA funding levels and subsequent real world project costs threatens to jeopardize and delay critical ongoing and planned capital improvements.

I also request, alongside our Illinois senators, modification to the scope and authorization ceiling for Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois.

Mr. Davis. Beyond raising the enlistment age, has the Air Force considered lowering eligibility standards to accept overweight enlistees and then training them to meet the old standard once they enlist?

Mr. Davis. During a recent visit to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, I toured a deteriorating physical fitness center.

If prospective servicemembers do not have confidence in the quality of the most basic, essential facilities, how can we expect them to enlist at a time of great uncertainty and mistrust in institutions like the U.S. military?

Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2023.

This bipartisan bill expands and strengthens the existing USDA Rural Decentralized Water Systems Program to support low- and moderate-income households' installation or upgrade of water well and wastewater systems.

It must expand opportunities to all who wish to farm, especially new and beginning farmers and farmers of color.

The farm bill must fight food insecurity by ensuring every household in America... has access to food.

We also must build on the success of the conservation programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.

If you eat food, the farm bill matters to you.

It must help farmers to meet increasing renewable energy demands.

It must expand opportunities for farmers and rural communities.

It is with great pride that I rise to pay tribute and honor the activities of the great First Lady, the first that I ever had the opportunity to know, and that is First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who was funeralized earlier today. As a young…

Currently, states do a great job of effectively running their child support enforcement programs, and current actions by the IRS threaten the states' ability to continue to administrate this vital program.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, and hope that states will find a way to change that policy.

I am extremely proud of that fact, that Illinois is indeed leading the nation in those efforts.

I want to thank both the chairman and the ranking member of the Work and Welfare and Oversight Subcommittee for bringing together our two subcommittees to discuss how to strengthen child support enforcement program for the states and the…

It is also a tool to improve racial equity.

Child support makes children in our country better off in many ways.

The main reason for non-payment of child support is the non-custodial parent's ability to pay the full amount ordered

Ensuring that children receive financial support from both of their parents is a powerful and cost-effective way to fight child poverty.

I am particularly grateful for the work Vicki did with me and other Members of Congress to help incarcerated parents and non-custodial parents.

It recognizes that the primary reason for non-payment of child support is inability to pay, not lack of love.