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January 8, 2016
Calls for Action in New Year to Create Jobs and Deliver Bigger Paychecks to Hard-working Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Johnson (GA-05) voted against a Republican bill this week that would dismantle the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood.
Issues: Health Care

January 6, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to an updated study by Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia (UVA), Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) was the highest ranked member of the Georgia Congressional delegation when it comes to legislative effectiveness in the 113th Congress (2013-2014).


January 5, 2016

Calls on Congress to finish the job by passing legislation to confront America’s gun violence epidemic

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) applauded President Obama’s announcement that the Administration will take executive action to help reduce and prevent gun violence in America.


October 28, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) voted with 265 other Democratic and Republican Members of Congress to pass H.R. 1314, a bipartisan budget agreement that creates jobs, protects seniors, affirms the full faith and credit of the United States and invests in our future.

September 17, 2015

Congressman introduces bill to protect traveling public by requiring automatic braking systems

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seeking to make highways around the nation safer for drivers, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) introduced the “Safe Roads Act of 2015” (H.R. 3536).


July 24, 2015

WHAT: On World Hepatitis Day, Congressman Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley) and Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) will join community leaders, in solidarity with those impacted by viral hepatitis around the world, to host a press conference calling on Congressional colleagues to urgently commit bold leadership and resources to eliminate the hepatitis B and C epidemics in the United S

Issues: Health Care

July 13, 2015

LITHONIA, GA -- Congressman Hank Johnson (GA04) is holding a town hall meeting at the Newton County Historic Courthouse on Wednesday, August 5, 2015 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. District and national issues wil be front and center – a community conversation with Congressman Hank Johnson.

WHO: Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04); staff and public


June 25, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) today re-introduced his bipartisan bill to address a growing problem of parasitic diseases – mostly in poor, minority populations along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South, Appalachia and distressed urban areas.

The bill passed the House of Representatives in 2010, but stalled in the Senate.

Issues: Health Care

June 25, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law (RRCAL), issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a core tenet of the Affordable Care Act in King v. Burwell: