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October 31, 2017

Barrington Irving, the youngest person and the first African American pilot to circumnavigate the globe on his own, is collaborating with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) for Irving's "Mitsubishi Dream & Soar Presented by Barrington Irving." The event will take place on October 17 in Johnson's home state of Georgia.

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October 27, 2017

Georgia U.S. Rep Hank Johnson, a Democrat, separately said the server wipe "appears to be a willful and premeditated destruction of evidence" by election officials, adding, "Georgia voters should be as outraged as I am."


October 27, 2017

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson said the "apparent deliberate destruction of evidence" raised questions about the validity of the results in the 6th Congressional District contest in April, a high-profile election for an open U.S. House seat that wound up being the costliest in the nation's history.


October 25, 2017

Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) wrote the act and was the first member of Congress to introduce a bill on the issue.


October 23, 2017

"We need to make sure that we are adequately resourced to be able to respond to these events. I don't think the federal government is doing an adequate job of that," said U.S. Rep. Henry Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), who attended the session that was organized by Wilson.


October 23, 2017

Rep. Henry "Hank" Johnson Jr. said he traveled down from Georgia because the issues revealed at Hollywood Hills need to be addressed on a national level now that global warming has increased the likely and intensity of disasters. "We have reached the point in the annals of human history that this has become the new normal," he said.


October 10, 2017

Like any young girl growing up in Rockdale County, Cinthya Moran, 17, always had a sense of comfort and security living in the friendly confines of metro Atlanta.


October 4, 2017

The recent Equifax data breach jeopardized the economic security of nearly half of all Americans because of the credit rating company's failure to safeguard our most sensitive information, which could now be in the hands of criminals.


September 25, 2017

"Due to artificial encumbrances, the nation was deprived of its first female president," said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., pointing out that Harris is one of several women who might run for the White House. "Perhaps that can be addressed in the 2020 election."


September 22, 2017

One of those Democrats is U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson of Lithonia. One of Georgia's most liberal members of Congress, he said in an interview Wednesday that he would only be willing to consider beefed up border security in exchange for protections for Dreamers.