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WASHINGTON - Today, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee applauded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for finalizing a rule to prohibit the use of pre-dispute, binding ("forced") arbitration in contracts for consumer financial products such as checking or savings accounts, student loans, or credit cards.

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Hank Johnson (D-GA) joined U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, this week to call on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stop taking away the rights of working people to collectively hold their employers accountable for wage theft, employment discrimination, and other unlawful workplace conduct.

DECATUR—Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), is pleased to announce that two students from Georgia's Fourth Congressional District have been selected to participate in the 2017-2018 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Program.

Rising junior Sonia Karkare of Decatur High School and rising senior Emily Lent of Providence Classical Christian School are two of 50 total students from the Southeast and Puerto Rico to be awarded this fully funded scholarship.

Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) re-introduced, along with over a dozen of his colleagues, the "Election Integrity Act of 2017." This requires a mandatory response by the Attorney General for allegations of voter suppression and intimidation, and will limit the purchase of any new voting systems that do not provide durable voter-verified paper ballots.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Hank Johnson and Congressman Mike Bishop's bipartisan bill, the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017 (H.R. 1393), passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, June 20.