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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Hank Johnson released the following statement on the announcement that Secretary Carter will allow for all military positions to be open to women:

“I am in full support of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s announcement today that the military will be opening all combat roles in each branch of the U.S. military to women,” said Johnson.

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LITHONIA, GA — Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced the opening of his Congressional App Challenge — a competition aimed at encouraging U.S. high school students to learn how to code by creating their own applications.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte requesting a full hearing to carefully review the issue of pre-dispute (“forced”) arbitration clauses that appear in millions of consumer contracts – from employment to automobile sales and from nursing-home admission to cell phone service.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Johnson issued the following statement on a media call while discussing The New York Times investigative series “Beware the Fine Print,” a three-part series examining how clauses buried in tens of millions of contracts have deprived Americans of one of their most fundamental constitutional rights: their day in court:

Nursing-home residents stand to lose every cause of action against unscrupulous caregivers unless CMS issues a rule ending pre-dispute (“forced”) arbitration in nursing-home agreements.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and 26 other members of Congress sent a letter calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to issue a strong rule to prohibit forced arbitration in nursing-home agreements.