Consumer Protection
Information regarding my stance on Consumer Protection.
This month, I hope you'll join me in celebrating Black History Month.
50 years ago, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a revealing interview to NBC News that acknowledged the soul searching and agonizing moments he'd gone through since his most famous speech in 1963. He told NBC the old optimism of the civil rights movement was a little superficial and now needed to be tempered with a solid realism.
DECATUR, GA – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) denounced the Trump Administration's action to immediately halt all advertising and other outreach activities for the ACA Marketplaces by HHS in the critical last few days of Open Enrollment.
CLARKSTON, G.A.—On Jan. 15, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) co-hosted an event to take a stand against the GOP agenda and its budget.
The town hall was co-hosted by Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry.
The event was held to hold the GOP accountable for their budget that calls for drastic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and dismantling the Affordable Care Act. Congressman Johnson praised the Obama administration at the event and echoed the voices of many guest speakers who have pledged to hold the GOP in Washington accountable.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security's made the decision to label the country's electoral system as "critical infrastructure." The move, which DHS announced on Friday, puts the electoral system on par with the energy or financial sector, industries considered vital to national security and economic stability. Rep. Johnson's Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2016" (H.R.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law (RRCAL), which exercises jurisdiction over regulatory and competition policy, spoke out against Republicans' H.R. 26, the REINS Act, as an example of "corporate welfare" that would establish sweeping restrictions on new environmental and public health protections.
[Watch Rep. Johnson speak from the House floor HERE]
Yesterday, House Judiciary Democrats convened a forum on “The Electoral College and the Future of American Democracy.” It has been nearly twenty years since the last hearing on this topic in 1997, and much has happened since then.
DeKalb residents and those throughout Georgia struggling with opioid addiction or who know someone who is now have an online toolkit of resources to help in the journey to recovery.
A House Democrat is calling on Airbnb to stop using forced arbitration clauses in its contracts with customers.
