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CSPAN: Rep. Johnson on the new National Museum of African American History & Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fImUXYa6AU | First aired on Sept. 23, 2016.
WABE (NPR): Ga. Rep. Hank Johnson Introduces Voting Protection Measures: https://news.wabe.org/post/ga-rep-hank-johnson-introduces-voting-protection-measures
The Guardian: America's funding of Honduran security forces puts blood on our hands: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/08/american-funding-honduran-security-forces-blood-on-our-hands | Originally published July 8, 2016
Boston Globe: What comes after ISIS matters: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/18/what-comes-after-isis-matters/wzC3nfzaowI9UdutoZcjTP/story.html | Original published November 19, 2015.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommitee on Regulatory Reform and Antitrust Law (RRCAL), requested a hearing to address the alarming and unprecedented wave of consolidation in the agricultural sector:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) issued the following statement after the Department of Health & Human Services issued a rule Wednesday to prohibit nursing homes that do business with Medicare or Medicaid from inserting forced arbitration clauses into their patient contracts:
Congressman’s legislation would authorize Title III funds to establish on-campus resource centers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) introduced today the “Inclusive Campuses Act of 2016” (H.R. 6164) to authorize the use of Title III funds to establish on-campus resource centers for LGBTQ students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority serving institutions.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Today’s hearing is an important and welcome opportunity to discuss drug price competition in the market for treating opioid addiction.
Opioid addiction is a devastating public-health emergency in many of our communities.
Strongly linked to the prescription of opioid painkillers, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that opioids contributed to the deaths of 28,647 Americans in 2014.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today released its Environmental Justice: Examining the Environmental Protection Agency Compliance and Enforcement of Title VI and E.O. 12,898, which found that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Final Coal Ash Rule disproportionately impacts low-income and communities of color and places the burden of enforcement on these communities.