Environment
DECATUR, G.A.—U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) has released the following statement after President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, a global effort to significantly reduce the effects of climate change:
President Trump's reckless and arrogant abandonment of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, signed by 193 of the world's 195 countries, is a historic blunder that places appeasement to fossil fuel interests over the health of our environment and its people.
Dear Friends, The month of March was busy to say the least. We accomplished great work both in D.C. and through a series of events at home in the district. In D.C., among introducing bills and speaking out against "TrumpCare," I served as a ranking member in my first T&I subcommittee hearing on the issue of the country's national preparedness system.
Although I have hosted five town halls to date, more work is necessary to ensure that the benefits and accomplishments of the past eight years for all Americans aren't abolished with a stroke of the pen.
Dear Friends,
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.
Congressman scores leadership post on T&I; also appointed to Highways & Transit and Aviation subcommittees
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced Tuesday that his appointment on the powerful House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) has resulted in a leadership role.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has informed him that he will have a coveted seat on the powerful House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I).
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]
Congressman Hank Johnson held a telephone town hall from his Washington, D.C. office on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. He called 50,000 residents in the Fourth District to hear their thoughts on the results of the Nov. 8 General Election and to listen to what they would like to see him work on in the 115th Congress that begins Jan. 3, 2017.