{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-returns-local-grocery-store-track-price-changes-kansas-families", "Davids Returns to Local Grocery Store to Track Price Changes for Kansas Families", "2026-08-11", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", "davids", "https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "ROELAND PARK, KS \u2014 Today, Representative Sharice Davids returned to a local grocery store in Roeland Park to buy the exact same basket of household staples she purchased last month. Davids bought 13 everyday food items \u2014 including milk, eggs, bread, tortillas, ground beef, chicken, apples, and tomatoes \u2014 to track whether checkout prices are going down for Kansas families.\n\n\"Every Kansas family knows what it feels like to watch checkout totals creep up at the grocery store,\u201d said Davids. \u201cPrices are still far too high, and progress isn't coming fast enough. We shouldn't have corporate tax giveaways for billionaires while regular families struggle to put food on the table. I\u2019ll keep fighting to strengthen our supply chains, support Kansas farmers, and lower everyday costs across the board so working families actually get the relief they deserve.\"\n\nMany Kansas households continue reporting financial pressure due to rising inflation and reckless policy decisions in Washington that only favor billionaires. The average family is paying more than $2,500 extra this year due to tariffs and is expected to spend about $740 more on gas. In the past year, residential electricity prices have risen by 13 percent nationally, and families have paid more than $300 more for groceries.\n\nDavids has made lowering the cost of groceries for families and small businesses a priority in Congress, including by:\n\nSupporting the bipartisan Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification (HPAI) Act, which ensures fair compensation for all farms affected by avian flu, including those in both infected and buffer zones.\n\nCompleting a one-day tour to highlight how strengthening supply chains helps lower grocery prices for Kansas families.\n\nUrging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to begin enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act to prevent corporate price discrimination that drives up grocery costs for consumers.\n\nVoting to pass the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Actto shore up the food and agriculture supply chain, ensure fair competition in the meat and poultry sectors, and lower food and gasoline costs for consumers.\n\nSupporting the Price Gouging Prevention Act, legislation ensuring large corporations can\u2019t take advantage of consumers at the grocery store.\n\nHolding multipleroundtables with Kansas business, manufacturing, and technology leaders on how recent legislation to improve supply chains will help boost their businesses\u2019 financial security.\n\nWorking a \u201cSharice\u2019s Shift\u201d at a local Price Chopper, where she helped store employees unload deliveries from shipping trucks, stock grocery shelves, and bag groceries.\n\nFor beef prices specifically, Davids called on the Trump Administration to reverse a policy that would significantly increase imports of Argentinian beef. Economists say increasing imports is unlikely to lower consumer prices while potentially increasing market volatility and benefiting large corporations over family ranchers. Farm bankruptcies are also rising, and more imports risk further squeezing struggling operations without delivering meaningful relief at the grocery store. The administration received bipartisan backlash over its original beef trade deal last year.", 1, "2026-08-12T06:18:38Z", "2026-08-12T06:20:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-returns-local-grocery-store-track-price-changes-kansas-families"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4279531314969063, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}