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Following the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept.17, Congressman Hank Johnson, a founding member of the Congressional Caucus for Advancement of Studio, Talent and Film Diversity, was inspired to write a letter to the Television Academy in hopes of addressing the lack of diversity and misrepresentation of Latino actors winning this prestigious award.
"The troubling report by the International Advisory Group of Experts (GAIPE), indicates a pattern and suggests that the botched investigation into Berta Caceres's murder is not an isolated incident," said Congressman Hank Johnson, who re-introduced the "Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act" in March of this year. The "Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act" would suspend U.S.
A bill to overhaul the federal agricultural guestworker program cleared its first hurdle Wednesday and is headed to the full U.S. House.
The Republican-majority House Judiciary Committee passed the bill 17-16 after two days of debate and over the objections of many Democrats. It's likely to clear the House, though its future in the Senate is unclear.
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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.
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."
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.
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Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) wrote the act and was the first member of Congress to introduce a bill on the issue.