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January 5, 2017

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]


December 16, 2016

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.


November 18, 2016

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.


July 13, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An amendment to the FY 2017 Interior Appropriations bill addressing the disparate impact of coal ash disposal proposed by Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) passed by voice vote on July 12. It represented the first time this year legislation highlighted the disproportionate impact unsafe coal ash disposal poses to low-income, rural and minority communities, and the second full House of Representatives vote on the issue of coal ash in the 114th Congress.


June 22, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of the horrific act of hate and terror in Orlando last week, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) today joined House Democrats’ sit-in on the House Floor to demand that Speaker Ryan and House Republicans allow a vote on bipartisan legislation to address gun violence.


June 15, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today led a letter signed by every democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging for swift action on gun violence.
Full text of the letter to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman is below.

May 13, 2016
However, Congressman Points Out That the Legislation Provides Not One Penny of Funding to Save Lives and Expand Treatment, And Insists Funding Be Added in Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) said that he is pleased to vote today for a package of bipartisan initiatives that are designed to address the opioid epidemic, but is very concerned the package does not contain any funding to implement these initiatives.
“Every day, 78 Americans die due to an opioid overdose,” Rep. Johnson said.

April 16, 2016
Rep. Johnson vows to fight for a budget that creates jobs, grows paychecks and invests in the future of the American people
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The law requires that Congress enact a budget resolution by today, April 15th. However, the Republican Congress has not even brought the Republican budget proposal to the House Floor for a vote – reflecting apparently the belief of the Leadership that their already savage budget proposal is not radical enough to pass through a Republican majority.