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Press Releases

March 17, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Hank Johnson's (GA-04) bipartisan Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act (H.R. 963) that re-establishes everyday Americans' 7th Amendment right to seek justice and accountability through the court system, passed the House of Representatives with 222 votes.


March 11, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law government funding legislation that includes eight community projects secured by Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04). The projects, which total nearly $5 million and are included in the appropriations government funding package, respond directly to some of the most pressing needs in Georgia's Fourth District.


March 8, 2022

DECATUR, GA — Today, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) released his 2021 Congressional Report that highlights the bills he helped pass in the House of Representatives, his consumer, courts and criminal justice reform legislation he introduced and the excellence in constituent services his office provided – mostly focused on COVID-19 relief -- that follows through with his promise of "taking care of home first."


March 7, 2022

Congressman Henry "Hank" Johnson (GA-04) is encouraging 9th – 12th grade high school students, living or attending high school in the district, to submit their art creations as part of this year's Congressional Art Competition.

Issues: Education

March 2, 2022

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Pointing out that a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study in 2016 found over a five-year period, the federal government spent more than $5 billion on advertising but Black-owned businesses received only $51 million, or 1.02 percent of those funds, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to the Biden Administration today seeking answers to this decades-old problem.


March 1, 2022

TUCKER, GA – Congressman Johnson (GA-04) is uplifting Tucker resident Amy Bielawski as his Hometown Hero virtual guest to President Biden's State of the Union Address to Congress on Tuesday.


February 28, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) today re-introduced the Minorities in Aviation Education Act, H.R. 6841, which would create a grant program aimed at improving the preparation and representation of minorities in aviation-related fields.

The new grant program, administered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), will be named for Bessie Coleman, an American aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.


February 25, 2022

Says In These Uncertain, Unstable Times in Russia and Ukraine Their Service Needed More Than Ever

DECATUR, GA – Telling nine students and their families that their service to our nation is needed more than ever, Congressman Johnson on Thursday evening announced the Georgia Fourth District nominees for the U.S. Military Academies – Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marines.


February 25, 2022

DECATUR, GA – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, released the following statement on President Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to serve as the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court: