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March 23, 2016
Congressman Joins Colleagues on Steps of Capitol To Recognize ACA's Birthday
March 23 marks the 6th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. In the six years since a Democratic Congress enacted the Affordable Care Act, important progress has been made to bring more access to quality, affordable health care. Today, 20 million more Americans have insurance because of the ACA, bringing our uninsured rate to an all-time low. Since the ACA was enacted, health care prices have been rising at the slowest rate in five decades.

March 22, 2016

By product of producing electricity a noxious material that could be dumped in a landfill near you

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) today introduced The Coal Ash Landfill Safety Act (CALSA) – H.R. 4827 – to protect citizens from dangerous coal ash that will be disposed in municipal landfills that are not equipped to handle the toxic substance.


March 22, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Armed Services Committee Member Hank Johnson released the following statement in response to today’s terror attacks:

“We stand united with our Belgian brothers and sisters and all humanity against such a bankrupt ideology of horror, extremism and cowardly violence. I join the President and all American officials in condemning this senseless act and pledge the full cooperation and support of the United States of America to help bring these criminals to justice.”

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March 17, 2016
EN ESPAÑOL

Hoy los Congresistas Hank Johnson and Keith Ellison junto a 60 miembros del Congreso de los Estado Unidos enviaron una carta al Secretario de Estado Kerry y al Secretario del Tesoro Lew expresando profunda preocupación por el asesinato de la activista Berta Cáceres, la manera en la que se ha conducido la investigación de este hecho hasta ahora de parte del gobierno hondureño, urgiendo al gobierno de Honduras a iniciar una investigación independiente mediante un ac

Issues: National Security and Foreign Policy

March 17, 2016

More than 60 colleagues sign on to effort to hold Honduran government accountable, urging Sec. Kerry to push pause on Central American nation’s security funding pending outcome of review


March 16, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Obama announced that he is nominating D.C. Circuit Court Chief Judge Merrick Garland to serve as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rep. Johnson called on the Senate to hold a fair hearing and timely vote on Judge Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
“With the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama has selected a widely admired and deeply experienced jurist with a sterling judicial record,” said Rep. Johnson.

March 11, 2016
Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) presented DeKalb County Police Officer Jonathan Lamar Lewis with a Congressional Badge of Bravery today at the Lou Walker Senior Center for his acts of heroism in the line of duty on December 12, 2014.

March 9, 2016
LITHONIA, GA – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) presented DeKalb County Police Officer Jonathan Lamar Lewis with a Congressional Badge of Bravery today at the Lou Walker Senior Center for his acts of heroism in the line of duty on December 12, 2014.
Johnson presented the award to Lewis with DeKalb Public Safety Director Dr. Cedric Alexander, First Assistant U.S.

March 8, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent the following letter to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urging them to recommend that more be done to protect citizens from the possibility that noxious coal ash could be disposed of in municipal landfills that are not equipped to handle the toxic substance. Unused coal ash contains toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing agents.